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How to build a Chrome Extension that displays motivational quotes using Javascript.
[Javascript] Developing a Chrome extension using Javascript.
Every Chrome Extension that exists on the chrome web store performs a specific task. Over the years I have had to install a couple of extensions that either helped me accomplish tasks at work, or enabled me to maximize productivity. Having used the Pomodoro timer extension in the last few months, I noticed a steep increase in productivity so I thought to myself “I am going to build something similar” - A Chrome Extension that will display motivational quotes at scheduled intervals (cheesy right!). I had zero knowledge about how to build one until this point. Luckily, the official Chrome documentation helped me understand the concepts I needed to just get started with building what I wanted.
Chrome Extensions are relatively easy to develop, and yes you can create them locally on your machine and have them interact with any page on the web. Think of them as small applications residing on the browser and with their help we can access information about a website, and build awesome things with them.
In this tutorial, you the reader, and I are going to build a Chrome Extension using Javascript. its major functionality is to display random motivational quotes from an API. You would have learned about the core concepts used in this work, and this will just be sufficient to enable you to build something similar or even more complex.
At the end of the article the reader should be able to :
Article quality
In comparison to other articles, I came across while trying to build this project I could not get enough support on how to make scheduled API calls (plain javascript doesn't do it). No article applied this. I am happy that people who want to schedule API calls in their extensions will find this article invaluable. Also, most of the articles I read preferred to use a popup at the top right of the page. They also needed to click the extension icon for the popup to display. I opted for notifications that display at the bottom right corner instead(so it doesn't cause a distraction), the same place where Windows notifications are received on your desktop. You do not need to click an icon to get a notification. I automated it.
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Conclusion
The reader will learn how to build a Chrome Extension and make scheduled API calls using chrome.alarms