Ember-Electron grew larger over time, and while we try to make updating this dependency as easy as possible given the complex structure behind it there are still a few manual steps required.
First of all: Thank you so much for giving ember-electron a try. As the Electron community grew bigger, more and more modules emerged that cover parts of the same operations done by ember-electron - and over time it became clear that this module should depend on other, more popular utility modules than to take care of all possible operations itself.
ember-electron v2 is almost a complete rewrite, utilizing electron-forge to build and package your desktop applications. It allows ember-electron to focus on the Ember parts of this module, while the whole Electron community can work together to polish the creation of installers, the compilation of small packages, and the developer experience around native modules.
If you are upgrading to version 2.x from 1.x, you will need to make some updates to your application. The best way to do this is to re-run the blueprint after upgrading ember-electron:
ember generate ember-electronThe biggest change is where your configuration lives - in the past, ember-electron managed your configuration, passing it on to internal tools that would take care of the actual creation of binaries.
Now, ember electron:package and ember electron:make use electron-forge to join forces with the greater Electron community. All configuration is now done using an electron-forge-config.js file inside your ember-electron folder. For details, check out the documentation.
To see an upgrade in action, check out how Ghost Desktop moved from ember-electron v1 to v2.