[Bug]: nativephp:publish duplicates the resources/** directory in both app.asar and app.asar.unpacked

[LukeTowers]

What happened?

Running php artisan nativephp:publish results in packages that are slightly larger than they should be because both MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked and MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar contain the resources directory.

Additionally it would be nice to be able to hook into the build process to perform further project specific tweaks to improve package size, i.e. removing unused locales.

How to reproduce the bug

1. Run php artisan native:publish
2. Check the contents of MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked and you'll see the resources directory that contains the app icons and the Laravel project folder in its entirety.
3. Check the contents of MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar (you can use the asar utility for this, npm install -g asar, and then asar extract dist/mac-arm64/MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar dist/mac-arm64/MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/asar-unpacked-manual` and you'll see that the resources directory is also present here.

Package Version

1.0.0

PHP Version

8.2.0

Laravel Version

10.15.0

Which operating systems does with happen with?

macOS

Notes

No response

[simonhamp]

@LukeTowers thanks for reporting this. This appears to be normal Electron behaviour.

There appears to an open and unanswered issue in the Electron GitHub related to this.

Additionally it would be nice to be able to hook into the build process to perform further project specific tweaks to improve package size, i.e. removing unused locales.

This is optimisation that I think we can get to later. The bulk of the size of your app when using Electron is the fact that it's shipping the web browser with it. These other optimisations will be minor in comparison.