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Disable asar

See original GitHub issue

Version: 5.12.1

Target: macOS

How do I disable asar? Currently, I have the following in my package.json in the root directory of my project:

// package.json
"build": {
    "appId": "popcorn-time-desktop",
    "app-category-type": "public.app-category.video",
    "asar": false,
    "win": {
      "iconUrl": "https://cdn.rawgit.com/amilajack/popcorn-time-desktop/master/app/icons/app.ico"
    }
  },

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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develarcommented, Aug 1, 2017

Now both values should work.

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amilajackcommented, Aug 1, 2017

@develar Would this be considered a bug? JSON supports boolean literals. "asar": false doesn’t work but "asar": "false" does.

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