Package Health Score

55 / 100

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Security review needed
popularity
Small
maintenance
Inactive
community
Sustainable

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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
7.0.0	\|	01/2024	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
6.1.0	\|	11/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
5.5.1	\|	01/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
4.2.0	\|	12/2019		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
4.1.0	\|	07/2019		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

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Popularity

Small

Weekly Downloads (542)

GitHub Stars: 4.72K
Forks: 196
Contributors: -

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package create-dmg receives a total of 542 downloads a week. As such, we scored create-dmg popularity level to be Small.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package create-dmg, we found that it has been starred 4,725 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Sustainable

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 0
Funding: Yes

This project has seen only 10 or less contributors.

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 6
Open PR: 0
Last Release: 11 months ago
Last Commit: 11 months ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of create-dmg based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

We found that create-dmg demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=18

Age: 8 years
Dependencies: 8 Direct
Versions: 26
Install Size: 2 MB
Dist-tags: 1
# of Files: 10
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: No

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Readme

create-dmg

> Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds

Imagine you have finished a macOS app, exported it from Xcode, and now want to distribute it to users. The most common way of distributing an app outside the Mac App Store is by putting it in a .dmg file. These are hard to create, especially good-looking ones. You can either pay for a GUI app where you have to customize an existing design or you can run some homebrewed Bash script and you still have to design it. This tool does everything for you, so you can play with your 🐈 instead.

This tool is intentionally opinionated and simple. I'm not interested in adding lots of options.

Install

Ensure you have Node.js 18 or later installed. Then run the following:

npm install --global create-dmg

Usage

$ create-dmg --help

  Usage
    $ create-dmg  [destination]

  Options
    --overwrite          Overwrite existing DMG with the same name
    --identity=   Manually set code signing identity (automatic by default)
    --dmg-title=  Manually set DMG title (must be &lt;=27 characters) [default: App name]

  Examples
    $ create-dmg 'Lungo.app'
    $ create-dmg 'Lungo.app' Build/Releases

DMG

The DMG requires macOS 10.13 or later and has the filename App Name 0.0.0.dmg. For example, Lungo 1.0.0.dmg.

It will try to code sign the DMG, but the DMG is still created and fine even if the code signing fails, for example if you don't have a developer certificate.

Important: Don't forget to notarize your DMG.

Software license agreement

If either license.txt, license.rtf, or sla.r (raw SLAResources file) are present in the same directory as the app, it will be added as a software agreement when opening the image. The image will not be mounted unless the user indicates agreement with the license.

/usr/bin/rez (from Command Line Tools for Xcode) must be installed.

DMG icon

GraphicsMagick is required to create the custom DMG icon that's based on the app icon and the macOS mounted device icon.

Steps using Homebrew

brew install graphicsmagick imagemagick

Icon example

Original icon → DMG icon

Defaults - Swifty and modern UserDefaults
LaunchAtLogin - Add “Launch at Login” functionality to your macOS
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create-dmg dependencies

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create-dmg development dependencies

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FAQs

What is create-dmg?

Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for create-dmg, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is create-dmg popular?

The npm package create-dmg receives a total of 542 weekly downloads. As such, create-dmg popularity was classified as small. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is create-dmg well maintained?

We found indications that create-dmg is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is create-dmg safe to use?

While scanning the latest version of create-dmg, we found that a security review is needed. A total of 0 vulnerabilities or license issues were detected. See the full security scan results.

Last updated on 10 December-2024, at 07:42 (UTC).

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