Deploying a 700MB Shaded Jar

[charot-git]

Is it possible to bundle a 700mb + shaded jar? I added a big dependency and now its past the limit of NPM i think

[shannah]

I think that will probably be too big for npm. they don't have a hard limit afaik, but they recommend keeping bundle under 50 megs.

If you deploy to github releases instead then that size shouldn't be a problem.

What is in the jar?

Can you post jar contents? Maybe there's something that can be trimmed.

[charot-git]

jar-contents.txt
here's the jar... I think the chunky dependency there is this one

org.bytedeco javacv-platform 1.5.11

[shannah]

I see that your shaded jar has javafx embedded also. If you change to not using a shaded jar, but instead do an executable jar with dependent jars in the lib directory, then jdeploy will strip out the javafx deps for publishing as they aren't needed, because JavaFX is included in the runtime. That will save you 50-100mb.

That jar listing doesn't appear to have any native libs, which is odd for such a large jar. Can you list the contents and include the sizes?

[charot-git]

Do you need to see my codebase? Maybe I'll just do the github releases how can i set that up?

[shannah]

Easiest way is to

1. download the jDeploy desktop app.
2. Open your project in it.
3. And publish to GitHub releases.

If you want to automate things, you can also set up a workflow to publish on every commit and/or every release.

[charot-git]

hello sir, it says the error

Running npm pack --pack-destinationE:\IdeaProjects\VOS\jdeploy\github-release-files
(node:22172) ExperimentalWarning: CommonJS module C:\Users\gamin.jdeploy\node\v23.1.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\debug\src\node.js is loading ES Module C:\Users\gamin.jdeploy\node\v23.1.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\supports-color\index.js using require().
Support for loading ES Module in require() is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use node --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created)
npm notice
npm notice package: vos-erp-men2@1.2.91
npm notice Tarball Contents
npm notice 25.6kB jdeploy-bundle/icon.png
npm notice 1.8kB jdeploy-bundle/jar-runner.jar
npm notice 18.4kB jdeploy-bundle/jdeploy.js
npm notice 740.3MB jdeploy-bundle/VOS-1.0.1-shaded.jar
npm notice 1.0kB package.json
npm notice Tarball Details
npm notice name: vos-erp-men2
npm notice version: 1.2.91
npm notice filename: vos-erp-men2-1.2.91.tgz
npm notice package size: 726.7 MB
npm notice unpacked size: 740.4 MB
npm notice shasum: c975092976bf1304fbc23eecd57df26213bacae6
npm notice integrity: sha512-OZ547dgM7+c1P[...]L9SotlPE+PzxA==
npm notice total files: 5
npm notice
vos-erp-men2-1.2.91.tgz
Assets copied to E:\IdeaProjects\VOS\jdeploy\github-release-files
Failed to open stream for existing package-info.json at https://github.com/charot-git/vos_releases/releases/download/jdeploy/package-info.json. Perhaps it doesn't exist yet
Release files created in E:\IdeaProjects\VOS\jdeploy\github-release-files

[shannah]

Try adding a readme to that repository first.

[charot-git]

I made my repository public and there's a release there but when i download it says not found

[shannah]

Looks like a bug - the first time it publishes. I'll look into it and have a fix shortly.

[shannah]

I have made a few improvements for GitHub publishing in the desktop app. Please give it another try. If you exit the app, and re-open it, it should automatically download the latest changes.