ElectronNET/Electron.NET

I have a few questions regarding the publish output which I couldn't really find an answer to so far: Why is the output so large? The .NET runtime should be around 80-100MB and the electron binary around 150MB. Yet my current output (from the example Blazor Web App project) is more than 500MB as compressed binary. I think some content is also packaged twice. This can be observed either by unpacking the app.asar file (npx @electron/asar extract app.asar <dir>), or by setting asar to false in the electron-builder.json file. The archive content under app.asar/bin seems to exist twice? Is there any way to reduce the bundle size of the electron package? I've seen some reports that claim they managed to reduce their electron apps to below 50MB (or even less in some cases). Is the node_modules directory even required? Furthermore, the startup time from launching the app via the published .exe file seems rather large? Does it extract the content every time you open the app?

Version: 13.5.1 (but confirmed source code was not improved in the latest for this issue) Target: Windows (Windows 11) / MacOS (M Series) What is happening is that during app startup, Electron Dot Net will inspect open ports to use as a setting for spawning the back-end server. There is a brief window between when the port number is selected, and when the back-end app actually starts up to utilize that port. If another app were to also start up during this time, then you get multiple instances attempting to spawn a back-end server using that same port and configuration. This results in a collision of port usage, causing the app to either crash or lock up. Steps to Reproduce: Launch built electron dot net application Quickly launch a second instance Note JavaScript exception that appears

If somebody would be interested in contributing app samples, here are some ideas: How to inject a Preload Script e.g. for setting up IPC messaging between web content and .net ap Build Customization via electron-builder hook scripts like beforePack, afterPack, artifactBuildStarted, artifactBuildCompleted This allows for example to manipulate or replace the *.desktop file for Linux apps A comprehensive sample for electron-builder.json That's something you can hardly find anywhere... Multi-Project Example How you can have a base project with Electron.NET code that is shared by multiple Electron.NET apps ElectronHostHook Sample A sample project, showing just ElectronHostHook without any distractions App Icons Sample A working sample with icons for all 3 platforms (Win, Linux, Mac) Blazor Server e.g. to showcase how to best structure it and how the different parts (client-side interactivity, Electron control, native capabilities) come together (for most of these, I can provide something

According to Electron API docs BrowserView was deprecated in version 29 in favour of WebContentsView. BrowserView: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/browser-view WebContentsView: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/web-contents-view It is worth looking at this to make sure that API is still relevant and working and add a new one as well.

Is there currently any way to programmatically set/get the zoom level/factor of a window? I believe the electron side exposes a zoom API on the webFrame, but the BrowserWindow and WebContents classes currently don't provide any possibility to use it. I understand that this might not be a very urgent feature, but it would be great to have nonetheless. Likewise, I would also gladly accept any alternative solution to get this to work.