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Obtain the source code of Electron applications
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Electron app decompiling
# Open terminal and install asar node module globally
$ npm install -g asar
# Go into the app’s directory, in our case it’s Slack
$ cd /Applications/Slack.app/Contents/Resources
# Create a directory to paste the content of app
$ mkdir example-sourcecode
# Unpack the app.asar file in the above directory using asar
$ asar extract app.asar example-sourcecode
# Boom cd into it and see the source code of the app
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ghost commented Oct 8, 2019

Not working on GitKraken

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zhil commented Jan 26, 2020

@yassineaboukir looks like its not working any more. Cant find any asar files in some electrol applications

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