Creating Shortcuts for an Installed Electron Application - electron

Question

I have an electron application for which I use electron-packager to compile and grunt-electron-installer to generate the Windows installer package.
Upon installation I handle the squirrel events like so:
//...
switch (squirrelCommand) {
case '--squirrel-install':
case '--squirrel-updated':
createShortcuts(cleanUp);
break;
//...
and the createShortcuts function just spawns a child process to call the Update.exe (Squirrel.exe) with the --createShortcut=myapp.exe arguments
This works, however, when the shortcut it generated it is named Electron instead of myapp.
I don't see any other ways to specify the output name of the shortcut, so how would I change the generated shortcut to say myapp?
Here is the snippet of the squirrel logs:
2016-03-20 10:34:35> ApplyReleasesImpl: Creating shortcut for myapp.exe => C:\Users\zeus\Desktop\Electron.lnk
2016-03-20 10:34:35> ApplyReleasesImpl: About to save shortcut: C:\Users\zeus\Desktop\Electron.lnk (target C:\Users\zeus\AppData\Local\myapp\Update.exe, workingDir C:\Users\zeus\AppData\Local\myapp\app-0.0.3, args --processStart myapp.exe)

Answer 1

Upon further investigation into electron-packager I found a more detailed explanation about the resource editing here.
using the electron-packager command line I pass these arguments to update the embedded electron exe information:
electron-packager ... --version-string.CompanyName="Company Inc." --version-string.ProductName="Product" ...
The grunt-electron-installer will look for this embedded application information to generate the name for the shortcut.

Answer 2

If you use electron-forge, you may want to try a config that looks like this:
"electronPackagerConfig": {
"icon": "Icon",
"win32metadata":{
"ProductName": "My App",
"CompanyName": "My Company"
}
}
More info here:
https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-forge/issues/89

Answer 3

Try to use electron-builder if you get painful with Squirrel. You can use the command as below to make your installer for Windows:
electron-builder path/to/your-electron-packager-output --platform=win --out=path/to/your-installer-output --config=path/to/builder.json --target=win
Sample content for builder.json:
{
"win": {
"title": "My Production Name",
"icon": "path/to/your-icon.ico",
"version": "1.0.0",
"publisher": "Your Company Name"
}
}
P.s: You must install NSIS and add NSIS path into PATH environment before you run the above command.