Is internet connection necessary?

[ckf42]

Hi. I am on a Windows machine, so I am not sure if this also happens to the MacOS build.
It appears that internet connection is required for the software to boot up.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install while having a firewall that blocks all connections by default (installing offline should also have the same effect)
2. Start graphest

graphest will spawn ~3 processes but no gui window is shown. The problem cannot be reproduced if internet connection is allowed once. Afterward everything just seems to work, even after an offline reinstall.

It also appears that graphest will keep sending network requests despite there is no apparent need to do so.

Are there any features that require internet connections?

[unageek]

Hi! Thank you so much for the detailed report. I can reproduce the issue.

Internet connection is required by the following codes:

graphest/src/main/main.ts

Lines 214 to 216 in 8dd6155

	await installExtension([REACT_DEVELOPER_TOOLS, REDUX_DEVTOOLS], {
	loadExtensionOptions: { allowFileAccess: true },
	});

graphest/src/main/main.ts

Line 275 in 8dd6155

autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify();

Both of them raise an exception when there is no internet connection. I will fix the issue in the next release.

[unageek]

Fixed in 3b39609.