electron package: reduce the package size

Question

I made a simple Electron app:

main.js

const {app, BrowserWindow} = require(\'electron\')
const path = require(\'path\')
const url = require(\'ur         


        

Answer 1

You can reduce the electron app size by packaging using electron-builder package.

PicArt is an electronjs app which I developed recently. It is built using reactJS. Initially when I packaged the app using electron-packager the Window's build size was around 98 MB. Then I found this awesome boilerplate electron-react where they configured the electron-builder to produced optimised build size. After using those configuration setup, PicArt's build is now around 36 MB.

Yes, it is possible to reduce the app size , but it quite painful and time consuming to configure the build setup.

Answer 2

I managed to reduce the final size of my mac app from 250MB to 128MB by moving 'electron' and my reactJs dependencies to devDependencies in package.json ... since all I need is going to be in the final bundle.js

But sadly I couldn't get it any lower than that because the electron framework is 118MB which is something if you're making a small app, but I guess that's the price to pay for making cross-platform web apps