sherclock-extensions

These are all the implementation of chrome and safari extensions for sherclock.

Installation

Follow this steps to install the chrome extension:

• Go to the latest release page and download the extension file on it.
• Download the chrome.crx file from the page.
• Open chrome://extensions in other tab of your browser (type it on the address bar).
• Drag the downloaded extension to the extensions page.
• Click "Add extension" to accept the extension installation.
• Done!

Release

Here's how to release a new version of the extensions:

• Search for the last version on the files (you can get it on the package.json file, the "version" key) and increment all of it, except for the one on the dist folder (they will be overwritten anyway).
• Run make.
• Commit everything.
• To generate the chrome extension.
  • Visit chrome://extensions.
  • Click "Pack extension..." to pop up the pack dialog.
  • For the "Extension root directory" field, navigate to the directory in which your extension files live, and select its dist/chrome subfolder.
    • If it's the first time you're realeasing it on your machine, leave the "Private key file" empty
    • If not, you can use the them .pem file generated from the previous build.
  • It will generate the .crx file and a .pem file.
• Go to the releases page, and click on the "Draft a new release" button.
• Set the same version you incremented to the tag and the release title.
• Upload the .crx on the "attach binaries" field.
• Save the release and 🎉, you're done!

TODO

• Document how to release the safari extension
• Release the official extensions on the chrome and safari stores

Contribute

Here's is how to install the plugins in dev mode on all browsers

On chrome

• Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/kelvinst/sherclock-extensions.git

• Build the extension with make;
• Visit chrome://extensions in your browser;
• Ensure that the Developer mode checkbox in the top right-hand corner is checked;
• Click "Load unpacked extension..." to pop up a file-selection dialog;
• Navigate to the directory in which your extension files live, and select its dist/chrome subfolder;

On Safari

• Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/kelvinst/sherclock-extensions.git

• Build the extension with make;
• Go to the safari preferences (menu "Safari > Preferences" or use the cmd + , shortcut);
• On the "Advanced" tab, make sure that the "Show Develop menu in the menu bar" is checked;
• Go to the menu "Develop > Show Extension Builder";
• On the extension builder window, click on the "+" button at the bottom left corner, then "Add extension";
• Navigate to the directory in which your extension files live, and select its dist/safari/sherclock.safariextension subfolder;
• Click on the "Install" button at the top right corner.

Important info

This project was built following these tutorial.

If you have any question, refer to it for some basic structure explanations (like the Makefile, and other structure patterns).

TODO

• Update this readme with safari extension release information
• Update this readme with deploy to the play store and safari ext directory
• Make the release a make task, to ease the releasing