a chrome extension for loading UI experiments on reddit.com

view the individual plugins for more info

git clone https://github.com/madbook/reddit-prototype-readnext.git

for development you'll also need to:

cd reddit-read-next
npm install
grunt

1. go to chrome://extensions in chrome.
2. make sure the Developer mode option is checked.
3. click Load unpacked extension....
4. browse to the dist/ folder in this repo's folder.

• for development load the build/ folder instead!

5. go look at reddit!

To pull down the latest, run git pull in the root folder. If you are running the

git pull

for development you'll need to rebuild as well.

Then reload the extension:

1. go to chrome://extensions in chrome.
2. click the Reload link under this extension

npm start

npm start runs the default grunt task once, then watches the .jsx and .less files used and re-builds. nothing fancy.

I've added a grunt task to automate reloading the plugin. It depends on chrome-cli. If you have homebrew, installing it is easy:

brew install chrome-cli --build-from-source

If you don't want to install chrome-cli, you'll have to reload the plugin manually using steps above. You'll probably also get some errors when using grunt watch. If they are annoying or causing problems, you can just comment out the chrome_extension_reload task in the watch config section of Gruntfile.js.

each plugin is a folder in the plugins/ directory. the plugin loader will attempt to load two files:

1. plugin.jsx (or plugin.js)
2. plugin.less (or plugin.css)

see the test/ and prefs/ plugins for reference until I write a more thorough description of how plugins should be authored.