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Pake turns any website into a native desktop app on macOS, Windows and Linux with a single command. The installer sits under 10 MB—almost twenty times smaller than typical Electron builds. It’s built on Rust and Tauri, so launch time and memory use stay low. You get features like custom window sizes, immersive mode, drag-and-drop support, ad removal, shortcut keys and style tweaks without writing a single line of code.
You can grab ready-made packages—WeRead, Grok, ChatGPT, YouTube Music and more—from the Releases page or point the CLI at your own URL. After installing pake-cli via “pnpm install ‑g pake-cli,” packaging GitHub is as simple as “pake https://github.com --name GitHub.” If you need custom icons, window dimensions or hidden title bars, add flags like “--icon”, “--width” and “--hide-title-bar.” First builds require a Rust ≥1.85 and Node ≥18 environment, but once that’s in place, subsequent runs finish in seconds. There’s also an online builder and GitHub Actions template if you prefer zero local setup.
The repo includes a list of keyboard shortcuts common to all Pake apps: ⌘ + [ / Ctrl+← for back, ⌘ + ] / Ctrl+→ for forward, ⌘ + ↑/↓ for auto-scroll, plus zoom, refresh and cache-clear commands. Developers can clone the project for deeper customization—styling with CSS, adding container communication or binding new features. Detailed docs cover every CLI parameter, advanced usage patterns and troubleshooting tips.
Pake itself is open source under GPL-3.0 with an output exception, so apps you build are yours to distribute. The author thanks contributors, asks for stars or issue reports and even jokes about feeding his two cats with donated canned food. If you fork Pake, just rename it to avoid confusion and credit the original project.
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