universal-search

Local Development

The add-on setup steps come from the extension dev page on MDN. Look there for more details.

Clone this repo locally: git clone git@github.com:mozilla/universal-search
Install the devprefs add-on to enable some Firefox prefs useful for add-on development.
Create a proxy file to link your local copy of the code to your add-on development profile.

If you'd like to get involved, take a look at our help wanted bugs, or say hello on IRC (#testpilot on Mozilla IRC) or on our mailing list.

By participating in this project, you agree to abide by our code of conduct.

lib/universal-search.js loads code into windows and constructs the object graph
use constructors to assign dependencies to the object, and bind this to callbacks
use init for initialization work other than dependency injection
use destroy to unset anything that could leak memory
leading underscore in prototype methods indicates private API
event naming convention: hyphenated lower case.
- we don't need to namespace it to individual items because it's such a small list of events. just keep it simple.

Events that flow through the global event broker (app.events, invoked as this.events by individual modules):

When the user types a printable key in the urlbar, the complete string in the urlbar is fired as the body of this event.

{
  query: 'the mar'
}