Browser extension for PaperHive

The PaperHive browser extension informs you about dicussions on articles while you are browsing. This is how it looks like:

In order to protect your privacy, the extension is only active on whitelisted pages (search for whitelist in the source).

The extension can be installed for both

• Chrome/Chromium and
• Firefox.

##Build instructions

• Copy config.json.default to config.json and adapt to your needs.
• Run npm run install-deps for installing all dependencies.
• Run npm run build:chrome. This will build the extension in ./build/.
• Open Chrom{e,ium} on chrome://extensions/ and "Load unpacked extension" from the./build/ directory.
• Go to a page that has PaperHive discussions (e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04246) and see if it works for you.

For development, use

npm run watch

to enable live rebuild of the extension.

##Distribution

• Make sure you bumped the version number in
  • package.json,
  • src/manifest.json.chrome,
  • src/manifest.json.firefox, and
  • bower.json.
• Make sure you are on the master branch.
• Create Git tag

  git tag v0.1.0
  git push --tags
  

Chrome

• Build the extension for Chrome,

  npm run zip
  

  and upload ./paperhive.zip to PaperHive's web store page.

Firefox

• Build the extension for Firefox,

  npm run xpi
  

  and upload ./paperhive.xpi to PaperHive's Mozilla add-on page.

License

The PaperHive Chrome Extension is licensed under the GPL3 license.