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Direct Installation

This extension can be installed directly via Chrome or Firefox:

Chrome Web Store Firefox add-ons

chrome Note: the Chrome Store may or may not have the latest update (details here).

Install from source

Clone the repository and load either the dist-chrome/ or dist-firefox/. See here for more detailed instructions.

Dev: Hot reloading

Chrome: Run yarn start, load dist-dev-chrome/ in the browser, and visit a targeted content URL. Subsequent code changes will rebuild the code, reload the extension in the browser, and reload any impacted tabs.

Firefox: yarn start-firefox, load dist-dev-firefox/

Dev: Manual development build

yarn build-chrome-dev and yarn build-firefox-dev build for the respective browsers, or yarn build-dev to build for both. Using this option requires manually reloading the extension and any impacted tabs after any code change.

Dev: Production build

yarn build-prod builds Chrome and Firefox code and packages it into zip files.

Future work

  • Monitor parent comments / posts of subscribed users' comments + other subscribed comments
  • Track edits to parent comments