Snap! Lite

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Snap! Lite is a lightweight version of Snap!.

Things to note:

  • The only available language options are English, Spanish and French
  • Backgrounds, Costumes, Sounds, and Library presets do not exist anymore
  • Many read-me files are gone
  • snap.html is now part of index.html

This may seem like I'm trying to remove features, and that is true, but I mostly made this so Snap! doesn't take up almost 2 GB of my hard drive space.

What is the space difference?

Snap!:

Screenshot 2022-04-23 9.40.24 AM
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Snap! Lite:

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Things to do:

  • Remove buttons that do not work anymore

Download:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1azADAyvH_0AWkntudcFbSymSwcFenmoK?usp=sharing

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last time I checked downloading the full Snap! repo including everything (manual, help screens, all translations, all costumes, backgrounds, sounds etc.) only takes up 172 MB of hard drive (not 2 GB). The JS sources are roughly 2.6 MB, which is ... tiny.

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snap takes up 1.42 GB when I downloaded it onto my computer, but after a bit of digging around, I found out that 1.26 GB is being taken up by the .git folder.

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The reason why the .git folder is taking up so much is because it's storing the data for the old revisions too. Try doing a shallow clone

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how do I do that?

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thanks

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Hmmm, then its a hell of a good thing Snap! exists online

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Yo, you should upload it on a different account, because I now know your first and last name (not that I would ever use it, of course)

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When I click on the download Snap! menu item (upper right corner of Snap!) it takes me to Release v7.3.1 · jmoenig/Snap · GitHub where there is no .git folder

I think this is an important issue - my experiences in Indonesia was that frequently the Internet was too slow and unreliable to depend upon and a version on the local file system (or as a cached Progressive Web App (PWA)) contains lots of media files that weren't being used.

But it is the help folder that takes up nearly 120MB - perhaps it is time for a better help system? Though the manual is over 80% of that folder. But note that the PWA doesn't cache the manual. Most of the 1300 files in the PWA cache are images.

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The .git folder only exists when you clone the Snap! repository (using GitHub Desktop, command-line git or something else).
why do i edit like 50 times after i make a post

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Ohh OK, also reading other posts, the .git file also takes up space. You can close this, it's not really needed.

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Thats a fake name lol why would my name be jcal

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oh ok good