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title: Catalyst GPS
tags: wiki
description: Introduction to Collaborative Strategy Making
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# Catalyst GPS

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Catalyst GPS is a collaborative strategy framework that helps visualize why we exist, where we are headed and how we might get there.

It allows people to step in, take the lead and drive positive change, focusing on what they are good at and what brings them joy.

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## Who am I?

- Front-end developer
- VSCode :heart:
- I use tabs. :cat:

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### 70% of our users are developers. Developers :heart: GitHub.

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### Usage flow

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    c [label="Hackmd-it \ncore"] [shape=box]
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    a [label="Text source\nGithub, Gitlab, ..."] [shape=box]
    b [label="HackMD Editor"] [shape=box]
    sync [label="sync" shape=plaintext ]
    b -> sync  [dir="both"]
    sync -> a [dir="both"]
    label="An edit session"
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### Architecture of extension

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## Content script

- Bind with each page
- Manipulate DOM
- Add event listeners
- Isolated JavaScript environment
- It doesn't break things

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# :fork_and_knife:

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- <code class="orange">onMessage('event')</code>: Register event listener
- <code class="blue">sendMessage('event')</code>: Trigger event

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# :bulb:

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- Dead simple API
- Only cares about application logic

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import * as Channeru from 'channeru'

// setup channel in different page environment, once
const channel = Channeru.create()

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// in background script
const fakeLogin = async () => true

channel.answer('isLogin', async () => {
  return await fakeLogin()
})

<br>

// in inject script
const isLogin = await channel.callBackground('isLogin')
console.log(isLogin) //-> true

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# :100: :muscle: :tada:

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### Wrap up

- Cross envornment commnication
- A small library to solve messaging pain
- TypeScript Rocks :tada:

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### Thank you! :sheep:

You can find me on

- GitHub
- Twitter
- or email me