Zipkin Chrome Extension
This is an extension to the Chrome browser that lets you trigger trace generation when using your application.
Installing
The Chrome extension can be installed directly from Chrome Web Store.
The Firefox plugin is not production-ready yet, but can be installed manuelly by building the project from source.
Usage
Check out the Usage documentation.
Developing on Chrome
- git clone [repo url] into [working directory]
- npm install
- npm run dev-chrome
- Follow Google's guide on how to set up a local development environment for the extension.
Developing on Firefox
- git clone [repo url] into [working directory]
- npm install
- npm install -g jpm
- npm run dev-firefox
- cd build/firefox
- jpm run
Building
- npm install
- npm run build
This will build a .zip file that should be uploaded to Chrome Web Store.
Publishing to Chrome Web Store
First, you need two API secrets;
1) create the file client-secret.txt in the root directory of this repository, with our client secret.
2) create the file refresh-token.txt in the root directory of this repository, with our refresh token.
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Upload the artifact to Chrome Web Store:
node upload.js upload -
Publish the latest uploaded artifact:
node upload.js publish -
Increment the version in the
VERSIONfile
Directory structure
This is the blog post the directory structure of this project is inspired from:
http://frontendbabel.info/articles/developing-cross-browser-extensions/