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Mahmoud Farargy
Mahmoud Farargy

Reputation: 97

How to reduce electron apps size

My electron application is insanely big on Mac after installation. It's around 1.39GB for no apparent reason, even though it's around 70MB on Windows. I tried to unpack the dmg file to see what makes it so big then found a file called app.asar that takes a large size of the app (1.22GB) and I don't know how to unpack this file. So my question is, How to make the application's size much smaller like on windows? and what does app.asar file contain?

I'm using electron-builder to build the app by the way

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6885

Answers (1)

OverShifted
OverShifted

Reputation: 515

It depends on your app. If your app is too heavy, then it might be natural. If not; try removing unwanted packages in the node_modules directory using npm. Try instructions here :

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/application-distribution

Make electron app smaller?

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/2003

You can also unpack the asar file using:

npx asar extract app.asar destfolder

more on that here How to unpack an .asar file?

it basically contains all you code and stuff.

I hope I could help you 😉.

some stuff added based on others comments

Upvotes: 4

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