// #9 item 4: inventory an app.asar without extracting it. Parses the asar header // (a Chromium Pickle: [u32 payloadSize][u32 headerSize] then [u32 payloadSize] // [u32 jsonLen][json...]) and reports total size, biggest top-level dirs, biggest // individual files, and trimmable categories (source maps, etc.). // Usage: node inspect_asar.js const fs = require('fs'); const asar = process.argv[2]; if (!asar) { console.error('usage: node inspect_asar.js '); process.exit(1); } const fd = fs.openSync(asar, 'r'); const head = Buffer.alloc(8); fs.readSync(fd, head, 0, 8, 0); const headerSize = head.readUInt32LE(4); // size of the header pickle const hp = Buffer.alloc(headerSize); fs.readSync(fd, hp, 0, headerSize, 8); const jsonLen = hp.readUInt32LE(4); // string length inside the pickle const json = hp.slice(8, 8 + jsonLen).toString('utf8'); const header = JSON.parse(json); fs.closeSync(fd); let total = 0, fileCount = 0; const byExt = {}; const files = []; // {path, size} const topDirs = {}; // top-level entry -> size function walk(node, parts) { if (node.files) { for (const [name, child] of Object.entries(node.files)) walk(child, parts.concat(name)); } else if (typeof node.size === 'number') { const p = parts.join('/'); total += node.size; fileCount++; files.push({ p, size: node.size }); const ext = (p.match(/\.[^./]+$/) || ['(none)'])[0].toLowerCase(); byExt[ext] = (byExt[ext] || 0) + node.size; topDirs[parts[0]] = (topDirs[parts[0]] || 0) + node.size; } } walk(header, []); const mb = (b) => (b / 1048576).toFixed(1) + ' MB'; const sortObj = (o) => Object.entries(o).sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1]); console.log(`asar total: ${mb(total)} across ${fileCount} files\n`); console.log('=== biggest top-level entries ==='); for (const [d, s] of sortObj(topDirs).slice(0, 15)) console.log(` ${mb(s).padStart(10)} ${d}`); console.log('\n=== biggest single files ==='); for (const f of files.sort((a, b) => b.size - a.size).slice(0, 20)) console.log(` ${mb(f.size).padStart(10)} ${f.p}`); console.log('\n=== by extension (top 15) ==='); for (const [e, s] of sortObj(byExt).slice(0, 15)) console.log(` ${mb(s).padStart(10)} ${e}`); console.log('\n=== trimmable categories ==='); const cat = (re) => files.filter(f => re.test(f.p)).reduce((n, f) => n + f.size, 0); console.log(` source maps (*.map): ${mb(cat(/\.map$/))}`); console.log(` .ts/.tsx sources: ${mb(cat(/\.tsx?$/))}`); console.log(` markdown/license/readme: ${mb(cat(/(\.md|license|readme|changelog)/i))}`); console.log(` test/spec/__tests__: ${mb(cat(/(\/test\/|\/tests\/|__tests__|\.spec\.|\.test\.)/i))}`); console.log(` node_modules inside asar: ${mb(cat(/(^|\/)node_modules\//))}`);