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Package for electron app publishing which drastically decreases bundle size by caching the prerequisites for apps to work. It depends catalyst binary (cenkalti/catalyst).

github.com/gokmen/electron-catalyst

gokmen/electron-catalyst

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# 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 ![](http://take.ms/F1vZo) will generate following ![](http://take.ms/TJD3g) 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)