nicosh / chrome-dev-newtab

A dev friendly new tab for Google Chrome.

Chrome Dev Newtab

A dev friendly new tab for Google Chrome.
Google chrome extension that turn a new tab into a productive dashboard.

🚧 Features 🚧 :

• Works offline ✅
• Show memory and cpu usage ✅
• Google or Stackoverflow search bar ✅
• Easily delete browser data ✅
• Easy access to the browser history ✅
• Javascript sandbox ✅
• Kanban board (with local storage data persistence) ✅
• Lighthouse integration ✅
• Markdown editor (with local storage data persistence) ✅
• Github ready ✅
• Trending posts from CS related subreddits ✅
• Light and dark theme ⏳

Installation

• Go to chrome://extensions/ and check the box for Developer mode in the top right.
• Download and unzip extension.zip from the last release
• Drag and drop the dist folder into extensions tab
• Activate the extension

Development

Since Chrome apis cannot be used outside extension scope (chrome-extension://) you cannot run the app as you would normally do with a react application.

• Go to chrome://extensions/ and check the box for Developer mode in the top right.
• Fork the repo and clone it locally
• Install dependencies with npm install.
• Do a build first with npm run build
• Run npm run start
• In another shell tab run npm run watch
• Open extensions tab in google chrome
• Drag and drop the build folder into extensions tab
• Activate the extension
• Start coding

Every time you make a change inside the src folder npm run watch will make a new build and you just need to refresh the tab for see changes.