[sebestindragos]

Surprisingly, a lot of issues with the icons that are packaged in the AppX. I pretty much had to get comfortable with the manifest to get it working

[mike_hearn]

Yes this is a bit of a pain. You don't have to ship AppX to the MS Store but it helps.

If anyone else is looking for help with this, my company makes a product [1] for distributing desktop apps that understands Electron and can package apps using AppX/MSIX and upload them to the store for you. It handles all the details including things like icons, generating the manifest, signing it and it can do all that from Linux as well which is nice if you want to deploy from CI. It's free for open source projects.

[1] https://hydraulic.dev/

[chrisjj]

Nice. Thanks.

[chrisjj]

Baffled by this kind of thing not working still after so many years. Or has the Windows store recently tightened its requirements?

Next time, perhaps the first step should be to submit Hello World to the store. Then raise an issue to add same to the Electron release procedure...

[sebestindragos]

No idea how it was before, but trying to build an AppX file from scratch in electron and having it approved in the store in still a pain in the ass