Ask HN: How to optimize Electron apps?

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7 years ago

There has been a lot of discussion on performance issues with Electron apps the last few weeks [1-5]. I'm curious what is something that an individual developer could do to optimize their Electron app. Electrino [6,7] is a nice proof of concept that it is possible to greatly reduce the app size. Others have said to share Chromium between apps, but that isn't something that an individual has power over.

So how could Chromium be stripped down to only include the features needed for a given Electron app? Are there other potential optimizations?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18733837

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18631738

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18578261

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765482

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761840

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14260755

[7] https://github.com/pojala/electrino

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