/WeVoteExtensionSidetrack

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We Vote Chrome Extension for Endorsement Maintenance and Discovery

This code base was forked from Highlight This: finds and marks words with many thanks to, and the permision of, Wim Deboel.

For developers

  1. Simply fork this repository
  2. Open chrome://extensions/
  3. Turn on Developer mode in the upper right corner
  4. Click the "Load unpacked", and select the root directory of the repository ... something like /Users/stevepodell/WebstormProjects/WeVoteExtension
  5. And the We Vote icon should appear in the top toolbar of chrome ScreenShot
  6. Clicking the "background page" link opens a chrome devtools instance that can be used to debug your "Content Script" (Content scripts are the only component of an extension that has access to the web-page's DOM).

Nuggets:

  1. That "Errors" button on the chrome://extensions/ shows some code validation errors, and some runtime errors. It can be useful, but not as useful as the "background page" devtools.