output app size

[biohaz...@gmail.com]

Turns out that output apps sizeis over 30 MB. Plus, you have to carry nw.pak and a few libs. Am i doing something wrong? is there a way to decrease output file size?

[Darren]

Although it is pretty large, node-webkit includes the whole of node and a whole webkit browser instance.

This won't be getting much smaller I don't think :(

[YuriSoloviov]

that's sad because if i have a small chat app it grows to unreasonably large size

[Zhao Cheng]

It cannot get smaller, sorry for that.

When node-webkti gets popular in future, you can require user to
install node-webkit and only distribute the '.nw' file, like what .NET
applications do. But currently node-webkit lacks installers and
bindings to file types, which makes this way impractical now.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:06 AM, YuriSoloviov <biohaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> that's sad because if i have a small chat app it grows to unreasonably large
> size

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Cheng
Intel Open Source Technology Center

[artur.t...@gmail.com]

But you always can use: http://upx.sourceforge.net/ on Linux and Windows platform. that reduce exe file to 12.8MB

[Paul Anthony Webb]

I was looking at the size of my app, and it's ~80MB (it's a web browser). I then looked at Opera, Chrome, and Firefox. There are all at least 120MB. For a chat app, however, it's crazy to have so big a size.

[Bastian KG]

It's a pain for all application written to work in runtime environment. Look at java, you need to run whole jvm aswell. If you need small application size i guess it's better to write it in native, compiled language.