Medium Unblocker Chrome Extension

An extension to unblock your medium reading experience.

Get started

Clone this repository, and then, in this directory:

1. npm install
2. npx webpack

Your unpacked Chrome extension will be compiled into dist/. You can load it into Chrome by enabling developer mode on the "Extensions" page, hitting "Load unpacked", and selecting the dist/ folder. You can pack the extension into a .crx by using the "Pack extension" button on the same page.

Use npx webpack to recompile after editing.

Source layout

The default source layout looks like this:

src
├── app
│   ├── background.ts
│   └── content.ts
├── styles
│   └── popup.css
└── ui
    └── popup.tsx

• background.ts will get loaded as the extension background script, and will run persistently in the background
• content.ts will be injected into the URLs matched by dist/manifest.json's matches entry (see Match Patterns documentation)
• popup.tsx will become the extension's "browser action" popup
  • NOTE: popup.tsx compiles into dist/js/popup.js. It is loaded into dist/popup.html by an explicit <script> tag on that page. dist/popup.html is static and is not automatically generated by the build process.
• popup.css contains styles for the popup. These styles are loaded with style-loader via the import line at the top of popup.tsx (and directly injected into the popup via JavaScript)

Dist layout

dist
├── _locales
│   └── en
│       └── messages.json
├── icons
│   ├── icon128.png
│   ├── icon16.png
│   ├── icon19.png
│   └── icon48.png
├── js
│   ├── background.js
│   ├── content.js
│   └── popup.js
├── manifest.json
└── popup.html

dist contains the Chrome extension. You can delete js/*, as its contents will be regenerated by webpack, but the rest of the contents of dist will not.

Acknowledgments

This work is inspired by Extensionizr, and the icons in dist/icons remain under the Extensionizr license.