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Summary

This PR reduces application package and installed footprint by eliminating dead-weight dependencies and duplicate assets from packaging, and tunes renderer V8 heap usage:

  1. Excludes node_modules from app.asar: All frontend and Electron code is bundled into dist/ and dist-electron/ by Vite, eliminating duplicate runtime packages inside app.asar.
  2. Eliminates asset duplication: Excludes wallpapers/, cursors/, and mediapipe/ from app.asar, since these are already provisioned via extraResources for raw filesystem access by the native compositor.
  3. Updates THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md: Points MediaPipe model notice to resources/mediapipe/ to match actual packaged resource path.
  4. Excludes preview assets: Excludes demo.gif and preview*.png from app.asar.
  5. Excludes unused Windows binary: Excludes ffmpeg-shared.exe from Windows extraResources.
  6. Trims unused Chromium locales: Sets electronLanguages to retain only OpenScreen's 13 supported languages, pruning unneeded .pak files.
  7. Enables maximum compression: Configures "compression": "maximum" in electron-builder.json5.
  8. Tunes renderer memory footprint: Appends --optimize-for-size V8 flag in electron/main.ts to reduce heap allocation in spawned renderer processes (note: does not alter the already-initialized main process V8 isolate).

Results

  • resources/app.asar reduced from ~275 MB to 10.21 MB (-96%).
  • Installed disk footprint reduced from ~770 MB to 483 MB.
  • Installer download size reduced to 157 MB (down from ~220 MB).

Type of change

  • Enhancement
  • Performance

Release impact

  • Patch

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Installer / packaging

Screenshots / video

N/A (build and packaging configuration changes only; no UI changes).

Testing

  1. Typechecking & Linting:

    npx tsc --noEmit
    npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit
    npx biome check electron/main.ts electron-builder.json5 THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md

    Passed with 0 errors.

  2. Native Addon & Helper Verification:

    • Verified compositor_view.node require and methods (createView, setScene, readFrame, exportMulti, probeBackend).
    • Ran npm run test:wgc-helper:win -> Verified hardware H.264 screen recording ("success": true).
    • Verified whisper-stt-server.exe responds.
  3. Packaged Binary Execution Test:

    • Ran release/1.10.0/win-unpacked/Openscreen.exe info -> Passed (arguments parsed, ASAR loaded).
    • Ran release/1.10.0/win-unpacked/Openscreen.exe sources --json -> Passed (Chromium initialized, IPC executed, displays and audio devices enumerated).

- Exclude dead-weight `node_modules` from `app.asar` packaging: all frontend and electron main process modules are already bundled into `dist/` and `dist-electron/` by Vite, saving ~238 MB of redundant files.
- Deduplicate assets in `electron-builder.json5`: exclude `wallpapers/`, `cursors/`, and `mediapipe/` from `app.asar` as they are already provisioned via `extraResources` for raw filesystem access by the native compositor, saving ~17 MB.
- Exclude documentation assets (`demo.gif`, `preview*.png`) from `app.asar` packaging (~8 MB saved).
- Exclude unused `ffmpeg-shared.exe` from Windows `extraResources`.
- Restrict `electronLanguages` to the 13 supported locales, removing 42 unneeded Chromium locale `.pak` files (~20 MB saved).
- Set `compression: "maximum"` in `electron-builder.json5` to enable solid LZMA2 compression for Windows installers and release archives.
- Add `--optimize-for-size` V8 engine flag in `electron/main.ts` to reduce heap footprint across renderer and background processes.
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Electron packaging now uses maximum compression, supported locales, and narrower resource filters. Runtime documentation clarifies the renderer-only scope of the V8 switch. MediaPipe attribution now identifies the packaged model location.

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Electron optimization

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Packaging rules
electron-builder.json5, THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md
Electron Builder uses maximum compression, packages supported locales, and excludes unnecessary resources. The MediaPipe notice identifies resources/mediapipe/ as the model location.
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electron/main.ts
The comment states that --optimize-for-size affects renderer processes and not the initialized main-process V8 isolate.

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Packaging optimizations reduce application and installer size while preserving the documented MediaPipe resource location. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

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In `@electron-builder.json5`:
- Line 97: Update the MediaPipe path referenced by the packaging configuration
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