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Avi Aryan
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Thanks for your advice. DomainHolder looks interesting. If I decide to purchase the domain, I'll give it a try.
Btw, I am not good with long term investments. But I will think on my domain and the possibilities more and evaluate to see if it can be worth it. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Are there some resources on optimizing Electron build size? I remember I first saw electron builds at ~50MB when trying out webtorrent but I wasn't able to reach that size myself.
Try & build a Hello World app. Its like ~40-45MB which I don't remember but I built it. Some of my simple examples can be found here, here & here & I think it was very less in size.
I made a short blog a year or so ago about reducing size. If you know React/Preact I have a ready made boilerplate with Webpack Support I just created.
If you're getting a size like Pugson says then you're obviously doing something wrong with your code. You can find a nice list of resources at awesome-electron & if you don't know anything about Electron & as the docs suck then get started here.
If you still don't get the size reduced take a look at VSCode & Atom, its like 70MB with so much stuff.
Also, take a look at Electron Builder & if you still aren't getting any size reduction then show me the code. I'll take a look.
I did try to get started with it but the nwjs binary is itself 180 MB (on mac). Looking at the docs for packaging an NW project, it seems to suggest that I will have to bundle the nwjs executable (180mb) with the project too. I don't see how it is going to be 6-7 MBs that way. Am I missing something?
Personally I don't know how to do it. But yes it is 6-7MBs. There is a video by Egghead but it is paid so if you already have a subscription you can watch it. You can check the companies using NWJS here which will give you an idea about size but it is less than Electron. Messenger which uses NWJS is 1.5MB. Checkout awesome-nwjs that might help you. I never used it so can't say about that.
Will give NWJS a try. If it's indeed 6-7 MBs, it should solve my issue.
There is one problem though. Not a lot of APIs & lower level stuff like Electron provides. Read it somewhere.
I did try to get started with it but the nwjs binary is itself 180 MB (on mac). Looking at the docs for packaging an NW project, it seems to suggest that I will have to bundle the nwjs executable (180mb) with the project too. I don't see how it is going to be 6-7 MBs that way. Am I missing something?
Personally I don't know how to do it. But yes it is 6-7MBs. There is a video by Egghead but it is paid so if you already have a subscription you can watch it. You can check the companies using NWJS here which will give you an idea about size but it is less than Electron. Messenger which uses NWJS is 1.5MB. Checkout awesome-nwjs that might help you. I never used it so can't say about that.
The telegram bot for WIP lacks a lot of obvious features like listing down tasks, deleting (and maybe editing) tasks, filtering tasks by #product etc. I use the telegram android app a lot for managing my tasks when on the go and the limited options in the bot pains me. I often have to use a mental reminder to make that todo change when I get back to my computer.
I agree. Maybe we can have some sort of private non-maker todo feature that people can use to manage todo lists that are personal. I personally like using a single app for everything, and since I am using WIP for work-related task management, I would love to use it for personal life's task management too. That being said, a private to-do list which might not count in streaks would be a great feature to have.
Is there a way to check the registration history of a domain?
Woah. Didn't knew a law like that existed. But yes, after reading about it on the Internet, it looks like doing this could be potentially risky. But what if my country nor the company's registration country have any law on domain squatting? It looks like this law is only active in the US (as per the Wikipedia).
Right 😅