gokmen/electron-catalyst

Package for electron app publishing which drastically decreases bundle size by caching the prerequisites for apps to work

electron-catalyst

Package for electron app publishing which drastically decreases bundle size by caching the prerequisites for apps to work

By using electron-catalyst like in the following example on a https://github.com/atom/electron-quick-start example app

will generate following the TestApp.app is the app bundled with Electron but the other one TestApp-catalyst is bundled with https://github.com/cenkalti/catalyst which dramatically reduces the file size. Once catalysed version is launched by the end-user catalyst will get the files required in generated config above, if it's already downloaded it will re-use that which is the main trick with the catalyst.

And if one of the catalyst bundled app is executed on the user machine before rest will re-use the existing Electron version.

This uses electron-packager for generating the traditional package which means you can use any arguments that electron-packager supports as well.

Whole current implementation has been done in a day at Packathon http://packathon.org/ (Jan 23 '16)

TODO

• Add linux, win platform support
• Code cleanup

AUTHORS

• Gokmen Goksel (@gokmen)
• Cenk Altı (@cenkalti)