Make electron app smaller?

Question

I just recently built an electron app and packaged it using electron-packager. The .exe file is 55,000kb and the rest of the folder is quite bulky as well. Is there any way to t

Answer 1

A somewhat helpful post from that github thread suggests removing unnecessary node modules via electron-packager. It also offers a bit more explanation on why files are so large.

You can zip your app and if you're using electron-packager you can ignore some node modules that you don't need when the app is running, this makes it a bit smaller. For instance I have a 37MB zipped Electron app (Note Windows version is much larger as it contains a copy of Git). But Electron will always have a large part of Chrome in it so there is only so much that can be done. Electron itself right now is ~33MB.