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Re: Show HN: Mongo DB management and GUI, built using Electron

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Post by contrahax » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 7:57 PM UTC

I made something similar a while ago (pre-electron): https://github.com/contra/smog

I published some modules along with it that made the process a lot easier. Maybe you can use some of them to make your life easier with mongotron :) Editing/inserting documents was a pain but it's all there if you want to yank it.

Re: Show HN: Mongo DB management and GUI, built using Electron

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Post by btzll » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 11:17 PM UTC

150mb? Am I the only one who thinks the size is ridiculous?

That's what you get when you build desktop applications using web technologies.

Re: Show HN: Mongo DB management and GUI, built using Electron

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Post by timofficer » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 3:44 PM UTC

btzll wrote: post #22

150mb? Am I the only one who thinks the size is ridiculous? That's what you get when you build desktop applications using web technologies.

Yea that's definitely a down side to using Electron. Looks like around 130mb is the expected size for an Electron app.

https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/2003

Re: Show HN: Mongo DB management and GUI, built using Electron

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Post by timofficer » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

timofficer wrote: post #23

btzll wrote: post #22

150mb? Am I the only one who thinks the size is ridiculous? That's what you get when you build desktop applications using web technologies.

Yea that's definitely a down side to using Electron. Looks like around 130mb is the expected size for an Electron app. https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/2003

although looking at the Slack app (which is built on Electron) it's only 18mb, so maybe I just need to look into slimming down the build.