Space Radar Electron

SpaceRadar allows interactive visualization of disk space and memory. It currently supports Sunburst, Treemap, and Flamegraph charts.

Downloads

Download Mac and Windows at the releases page

Features

• space visualizations using sunburst and treemap charts
• previews visualization as disk is being scanned
• fast (completes disk scanner faster than du)
• cross platform (at least on Mac OS X and Windows)
• allow drilldown of directories
• breadcrumbs and navigation
• opens files and directories
• analyze disk contents from a remote server (see section Reading from a file)

Screenshots

Reading from a file

To create a file to be read from use du -ak, for example:

• du -ak /var/log /usr | gzip -c > /tmp/sizes.txt.gz
• du -ak /opt /home /tmp > /tmp/sizes.txt

Compressed files can be read directly. To detect them, the file name has to end with .gz.

Future Enhancements

• more target for scanning
• color by file types
• filter hidden files
• moar!!
• let me know what you think

Futher Explorations

• More efficient memory usage
• More efficient scanning process
• 3D visualization

History

This project started as quick prototype for me to test drive electron (& some es6 syntax), d3.js and for me to explore the question of "what's taking up my disk space". Turns out writing a disk visualization app isn't that simple as I dwell into figuring out how to make disk scanning not block the ui thread, ipc calls go faster, smoother rendering, lesser memory usage, more sensible interactions...

Whats New

V5

• Import from DU file
• Upgrade electron
• Flamegraphs (BETA)
• Directory Listview
• Update libs - Electron, D3

V4

• Treemap view
• Memory monitoring
• Mac App look using Photon
• Context Menus for locating + opening + deleting files / directories
• Navigation controls (back/fwd/up)
• Switched disk scanning jobs to invisible renderer process

Version 3

• App icon finally! Thanks Jill for the help with this :)
• Many Bug fixes
• Disk scanning is moved to a webview process
• Investigated various RPC methods. Now uses LocalStorage + FileSystem IPC message passing
• Reduce memory usage (and Electron crashes) by not caching key paths
• Tested on > 100GB & 2M files
• Improvements to user interactivity esp on hover states
• To prevent renderer process from hitting heap mem limit (1.5GB), all previous data is null, with dom elements removed to reduce memory pressure
• Allow target selection for disk usage scanning
• Locate path in Finder
• Env Debug Flags

Version 2

• Major speed up scanning directories. About 10x from version 1, and almost as fast or faster than du.
• Runs disk scanning as a separate headless renderer process
• Json is passed back via IPC
• Remove Async npm dependency

Issues

Please raise on github issue tracker or contact @blurspline on twitter

Development

Run

npm run debug

or

npm run app

Check that dependencies are installed, otherwise run (this may take awhile for electron binaries)

npm run install

Thanks

• Jill for designing the app logo
• Jianwei for his comments on the app
• Chee Aun for helping alpha test the app
• WM for his talk on Electron that got me started
• Contributors