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Not ignoring output directories results in larger bundles

See original GitHub issue

I’ve created a simple app that just loads an url with some extra. I only need:

app
browser-window
global-shortcut
dialog
fs
https
menu

My package.json is really simple:

{
  "name": "myapp",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "main": "main.js",
  "devDependencies": {
    "electron-prebuilt": "^0.33.3"
  }
}

How is it possible that my bundle osx app is more than 100MB, Linux > 500 and Windows over 1GB? What am I doing wrong?

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

kfranqueirocommented, Sep 28, 2015

I’m going to guess you have the same problem as #139, that you’ve ended up including your output folder in subsequent electron-packager runs. Try adding it to --ignore.

2reactions

maleptcommented, Sep 28, 2015

~100MB is about right. I just checked my app (Electron 0.26.0):

$ du -xcsh *
8.7M    content_shell.pak
53M AppFormerlyKnownAsElectron
9.8M    icudtl.dat
2.5M    libffmpegsumo.so
508K    libgcrypt.so.11
16M libnode.so
32K libnotify.so.4
404K    natives_blob.bin
2.4M    resources
908K    snapshot_blob.bin
93M total