Add automated checks for desktop app runtime #233

- Add automation script for building, packaging, installing, executing
  and verifying Electron distrubtions across macOS, Ubuntu and Windows.
- Add GitHub workflow to run the script to test distributions using the
  script.
- Update README with new workflow status badge.
- Add application initialization log to desktop applications to be able
  to test against crashes before application initialization.

scripts/check-desktop-runtime-errors/utils/io.js

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+import { extname, join } from 'path';
+import { readdir, access } from 'fs/promises';
+import { constants } from 'fs';
+import { log, die, LOG_LEVELS } from './log.js';
+
+export async function findSingleFileByExtension(extension, directory) {
+  if (!directory) { throw new Error('Missing directory'); }
+  if (!extension) { throw new Error('Missing file extension'); }
+
+  if (!await exists(directory)) {
+    die(`Directory does not exist: ${directory}`);
+    return [];
+  }
+
+  const directoryContents = await readdir(directory);
+  const foundFileNames = directoryContents.filter((file) => extname(file) === `.${extension}`);
+  const withoutUninstaller = foundFileNames.filter(
+    (fileName) => !fileName.toLowerCase().includes('uninstall'), // NSIS build has `Uninstall {app-name}.exe`
+  );
+  if (!withoutUninstaller.length) {
+    die(`No ${extension} found in ${directory} directory.`);
+  }
+  if (withoutUninstaller.length > 1) {
+    log(`Found multiple ${extension} files: ${withoutUninstaller.join(', ')}. Using first occurrence`, LOG_LEVELS.WARN);
+  }
+  return {
+    absolutePath: join(directory, withoutUninstaller[0]),
+  };
+}
+
+export async function exists(path) {
+  if (!path) { throw new Error('Missing path'); }
+  try {
+    await access(path, constants.F_OK);
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+export async function isDirMissingOrEmpty(dir) {
+  if (!dir) { throw new Error('Missing directory'); }
+  if (!await exists(dir)) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  const contents = await readdir(dir);
+  return contents.length === 0;
+}