Altair: Reduce app size

Created on 7 Oct 2019 · 14Comments · Source: imolorhe/altair

Hey 👋

First, thank you for such an awesome tool. The question I have is related to the app's size.
Freshly installed on mac os it's almost 520mb. As an example, VSCode editor is 230mb, twice less.

So why is graphql client so heavy, maybe it's possible to reduce its size?

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vladshcherbin

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Thanks I have found the reason for the large app size. I don't filter out the application content when packaging the app so the electron app is bundled with all the files it finds in the directory.

I'll add a files list to ensure only required files are packaged. 🙂

imolorhe on 9 Oct 2019

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welcome[bot] on 7 Oct 2019

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Hey, never really looked into why the bundle is so large. I always assumed electron apps have large sizes due to the nodejs runtime that is bundled with the apps.

imolorhe on 7 Oct 2019

@imolorhe yep, this is why I added VSCode as an example, it's also an electron app. I also have another electron apps: Twitch (~220mb), RunJs (~190mb), Figma (~140mb), Atom (~590mb).

Interesting if it's somehow possible to reduce Altrair size as there are definitely smaller electron apps :)

vladshcherbin on 8 Oct 2019

Thanks I have found the reason for the large app size. I don't filter out the application content when packaging the app so the electron app is bundled with all the files it finds in the directory.

I'll add a files list to ensure only required files are packaged. 🙂

imolorhe on 9 Oct 2019

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Digging further, I think I can reduce the app size even more if I have the electron app as a separate package, instead of having it as part of the main repo.

imolorhe on 9 Oct 2019

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