Highlight a unit, and it'll convert it
Believe it or not, this was inspired by a tweet. Someone tweeted a picture of Opera GX converting something they highlighted and the official Opera GX twitter account (underrated account) replied to them, thankfully causing it to pop up on my timeline.
I thought it was a great feature, especially since I enjoy doom-converting to my local sinking currency, and don't enjoy typing out values or searching them in new tabs to convert them, so here we are.
This "quick afternoon project" (ha!) was a great exploration into:
- 👷 Planning, structuring and logically interconnecting the various working parts of the extension over 3 independent scripts with different dependencies.
- 🤯Thoughtful decision making when encountering design and architecture crossroads. (Over many decisions).
- 💡 Heeding The Call™ (AKA inspiration for new features and improving existing implementions).
- 🧠 Solving difficult and tricky problems in an attempt to heed said call^.
- Then later going back and implementing those solutions in completely new and much better ways, while questioning the sanity and life choices of the original author (yours truly).
- 🏗️ Diving deeper into build tools and their underlying strategies (Vite/Rollup & AST based tree shaking 👍)
- 🔧 Developing custom tooling to imrpove and ease the overall dev experience.
- Who knows what year this'd release in if I hadn't gotten sick of manually reloading the extension and made a Chrome reload plugin for Rollup (and Webpack before migrating)🙃
