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electron-updater size

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Version: electron-updater 4.0.6
Target: macOS

electron-updater increases the bundle size of our main process script by 22 times to half a megabyte. Pasting the screenshots produced by webpack bundle analyzer plugin:

Without electron-updater:

With electron-updater:

electron-builder is the most popular tool for packaging and publishing apps and I love it. It is so easy to work with. The auto-updating feature is so easy to set up. However, seeing that our app will load slower makes me think about the decision to use the electron-updater plugin.

Is there a way to minimize the bundle size by using different libraries to do the same? I am pasting a few resources to show where the size problems are.

https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=electron-updater@4.0.12

https://bundlephobia.com/scan-results?packages=@types/semver@6.0.0,lazy-val@1.0.4,bluebird-lst@1.0.9,fs-extra-p@8.0.2,js-yaml@3.13.1,semver@6.1.1,source-map-support@0.5.12,builder-util-runtime@0.0.0-semantic-release,lodash.isequal@4.5.0,pako@1.0.10

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

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develarcommented, Jul 1, 2019

result for 4.1.0 — https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=electron-updater@4.1.0

2 less dependencies. Can be reduced further.

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sandeep1995commented, Mar 16, 2021

Please don’t close this issue as @develar said: “Can be reduced further.”.

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