Delete app.asar after extraction, duplicate binaries, wasted disk space

[kariudo]

Expected Behavior

An attempt should be made to reduce disk space consumed by the package, avoiding obvious duplication and substantial wastes of space on disk.

Actual Behavior

Several large life resource redundancies exist, causing the insomnia package takes up a rather significant amount of disk space (2.5GB on my system in question), in no small part due to the app resources which include the extracted and unextracted electron asar.

• Compressed and extracted app.asar, if the resources have been extracted for electron, why not remove the half a gigabyte of wasted space in the archive.
• Presumably the node_modules extracted contain a severe amount of duplication at that size, I would think better bundle generation could be done here for distribution (but that's another issue).
• Duplicate binaries (insomnia.dll and insombia-x.x.x.exe are the same file with two names, per checksum) and over 200MB each.

I'm sure there are others beyond this quick check, but its likely the space on disk could be easily cut in half or more with basic cleanup of the distributables.

Reproduction Steps

1. Install insomnia
2. Observe installation directory

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the issue tracker for this problem.

Which sync method do you use?

• Git sync.
• Insomnia Cloud sync.
• Local only

Additional Information

It would seem a simple remediation of some wasted disk space to delete the app.asar following its extraction to reduce the amount of space consumed by the electron resources.

Additionally, the redundant inclusion of the same binary with 2 different names in both dll and exe form:

Local/insomnia/app-12.5.0
❯ Get-FileHash -Path .\insomnia-12.5.0.exe

Algorithm       Hash                                                                   Path
---------       ----                                                                   ----
SHA256          01457ACB3CC12B70A724B1325D403B88419A5EA6DE6F75D936C1FA102804CF6F       


Local/insomnia/app-12.5.0
❯ Get-FileHash -Path .\insomnia.dll

Algorithm       Hash                                                                   Path
---------       ----                                                                   ----
SHA256          01457ACB3CC12B70A724B1325D403B88419A5EA6DE6F75D936C1FA102804CF6F       

Insomnia Version

12.5.0

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 10 22H2

Installation method

insomnia.rest download

Last Known Working Insomnia version

No response

[dp1620]

Hey @kariudo ,

The excessive disk space consumption and duplicated resources you're observing are exactly what we avoid with Voiden.

We are built with an intentionally lightweight core that stays lean by avoiding unnecessary baggage and duplicate resources.

Voiden's architecture ensures that the base application remains small. All extra functionality, including protocol logic like gRPC and WebSockets, lives in an plugin system. This means the tool can expand its capabilities without becoming bloated, preventing the kind of 2.5GB installs caused by duplicated files you described.

I am one of the maintainers of Voiden. We'd love for you to give it a try if it sounds like a good fit for your workflow: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden