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Electron ASAR archive
File type: Various data file
Files with asar extension are archives related to the Electron development environment.
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: November 16, 2023
File extension asar is probably best known for its use in Electron, an integrated development software for Microsoft Windows operating system.
It was specifically designed by GitHub for the Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell) framework to reduce the number of file requests and to prevent issues with filesystems that have a large number of files.
A typical .asar file is a data container for other data files used by Electron.
By default is called: foo.asar
ASAR is a simple extensive archive format, similar to tar format.
Use Electron for working with its .asar archives.
Conversion to other formats is most likely not possible.