Fix the chrome build system

[Stebalien]

So, the chrome build system is a bit weird. npm build chrome runs the tasks in the following order:

> tipsy@ build-chrome /home/steb/projects/tipsy
> grunt chrome-extension

Running "clean:chrome-extension" (clean) task
>> 1 path cleaned.

Running "compress:chrome-extension" (compress) task
Created chrome-extension/dist/tipsy.zip (521682 bytes)

Running "copy:chrome-extension" (copy) task
Created 25 directories, copied 138 files

Running "stylus:chrome-extension" (stylus) task
File chrome-extension/dist/tipsy/css/tipsy.css created.

Running "es6:chrome-extension" (es6) task

Running "shell:chrome-extension" (shell) task

Now, the chrome store expects a zip with a key.pem so I tried uploading the file produced by compress:chrome-extension (which meets both of these requirements). However, that zip file is missing the manifest‽ Worse, it appears to have a slightly different directory structure than the .crx. At the end of the day, I just extracted the compiled extension (.crx), put the key.pem in place, re-zipped, and uploaded that.

As far as I can tell, the correct way to do this is to move the compress:chrome-extension task after es6:chrome-extension and make sure to build the .crx and .zip from the same source.

[tbranyen]

Strange this has been working, was there a change that broke it I wonder? We did not need to follow the steps you just said to publish any of the other versions and I've been using this same exact code (at least the code I wrote originally) for two other chrome extensions as well.

[tbranyen]

Also to add to this issue, we should drop the chrome- prefix and try and clean up the code to remove any trace of the previous branching.

[Stebalien]

How exactly did you publish it then? Did you upload the zip or did Google accept pre-packaged crx files in the past.

[tbranyen]

Good question, it's been over a year since I last published an extension, it's possible they changed something on their end. I vaguely remember uploading both a key and the zip separately. I think the idea was that Google signs the .crx for you.

[Stebalien]

Actually, given that the current system drops the key in the zip file (as key.pem) as required by google, I don't think anything has changed. Have you tried building from a clean source?

By the way, here's a diff showing how I think this should work:

diff --git a/Gruntfile.coffee b/Gruntfile.coffee
index 9c991bb..9f3d03d 100644
--- a/Gruntfile.coffee
+++ b/Gruntfile.coffee
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ module.exports = ->

   @registerTask 'chrome-extension', [
     'clean:chrome-extension'
-    'compress:chrome-extension'
     'copy:chrome-extension'
     'stylus:chrome-extension'
     'es6:chrome-extension'
+    'compress:chrome-extension'
     'shell:chrome-extension'
   ]

diff --git a/build/tasks/compress.coffee b/build/tasks/compress.coffee
index a02c5d2..4aee196 100644
--- a/build/tasks/compress.coffee
+++ b/build/tasks/compress.coffee
@@ -8,14 +8,6 @@ module.exports = ->
         mode: 'zip'

       files: [
-        { src: ['node_modules/purecss/*'], dest: '.' }
-        { src: ['**/*'], expand: true, cwd: 'shared' }
-        {
-          src: [
-            'key.pem'
-            '_locales/**'
-          ]
-          expand: true
-          cwd: 'chrome-extension'
-        }
+        { src: ['key.pem'], cwd: 'chrome-extension/dist' }
+        { src: ['**/*'], expand: true, cwd: 'chrome-extension/dist/tipsy' }
       ]

However, I don't really know grunt so I don't know if this is how one is supposed to do it. The basic idea is that the crx and zip should look identical modulo key.pem (only in the zip).

[tbranyen]

This makes sense to me. I dunno how it could work with compress running before building.