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I Found a Tool That Shrinks Electron Apps to a Few MB (opens in new tab)

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I stumbled on Pake today. It’s sitting at 2,400 stars on GitHub. That kind of jump in one day made me curious. Here’s what it does. Pake turns any webpage into a desktop app. You give it a URL. It builds you a native app file. That’s it. The interesting part is how small the output is. Most tools like this use Electron. Electron bundles a whole copy of Chromium. Your app ends up 100+ MB, even for something simple. Pake skips that. It uses your system’s built-in WebView instead. No bundled bro...

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