break extraction of asar archives using electron/asar cli
Do not rely on this for any protection, all of the files are still in the archive but just unable to be extracted by the asar utility. Extracting files one-by-one is possible.
# Using your package manager of choice
# Yarn
yarn global add asarbreak
# npm
npm install --global asarbreak
# Then, execute
asarbreak --helpUsage: asarbreak <input asar>
Break extraction of asar archives by electron/asar CLI
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-n, --no-backup Overwrites the original asar archive
--no-delete Don't unlink the original asar
--break-windows Adds invalid entries that will not be able to deleted by Windows Explorer after extraction
(default: false)
--no-invalid-entry Don't create an invalid entry
-o, --output [path] Output file path (defaults to overwrite <input>)
-d, --duplicate Duplicates file entries to confuse extraction
-h, --help display help for command