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.gzdu -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 atom 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