Nepali Date Chrome Extension

The extension shows the current nepali date in the browser action.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

* Node
* Yarn

Installing

To get the extension built the following simple steps need to be followed

Please make sure that Node and Yarn are installed in your machine. If yarn is not installed then install it by using the below command :

MAC

brew install yarn

Windows

1. download installer from https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/
2. install yarn using installer
3. restart command line if necessary

Clone this repository

git clone [email protected]:Acesmndr/nepali-date-chrome-extension.git
cd nepali-date-chrome-extension

then install the project dependencies

yarn install

Building the extension

To build the extension run the following command

yarn build:[development/chrome/firefox]

It builds the extension files in the folder for the environment you passed as well as builds the crx extension in the build folder. yarn build:development doesn't build the crx file but watches over the files and rebuilds the extension files for each file change.

Loading the extension

There are two ways you can achieve this. Either you can load the unpacked extension or load the packed crx extension.

• Loading unpacked Extension

  • Go to chrome://extensions page
  • Click load unpacked extension
  • Browse to the desired environment[development/production] folder

• Loading crx file

  • Go to chrome://extensions page
  • Drag and drop the extension crx file from the build folder

Maintaining changelog

A changelog has been maintained to keep track of all the changes made in the extension along with semantic versioning

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Upgrading the extension

Run the following command to check the current version of the extension

yarn version:show

Then to upgrade the version along with a changelog run the following command

CHANGELOG="Changes made in the extension" VERSION="5.0.0" yarn version:upgrade

Built With

• Webpack - Module Bundler
• Yarn - The package manager