Asar7z ((free)) ◎ [Tested]

In the early days of Electron, applications consisted of thousands of tiny JavaScript, HTML, and CSS files. When a user launched the app, the operating system had to read thousands of individual inodes from the disk. This caused significant IO overhead and slowed down app startup times.

Once installed, 7-Zip recognizes .asar as a first-class citizen. You can now drag and drop files out of the archive, extract specific folders, and modify the contents (if the archive isn't signed or protected) with the ease of a standard ZIP file. asar7z