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Who am I?

• Front-end developer
• VSCode
• I use tabs.

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Usage flow

digraph {
  compound=true
  rankdir=RL

  graph [ fontname="Source Sans Pro", fontsize=20 ];
  node [ fontname="Source Sans Pro", fontsize=18];
  edge [ fontname="Source Sans Pro", fontsize=12 ];


  subgraph core {
    c [label="Hackmd-it \ncore"] [shape=box]
  }
  
  c -> sync [ltail=session lhead=session]

  subgraph cluster1 {
     concentrate=true
    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"
  }
}

Architecture of extension

Content script

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

• onMessage('event'): Register event listener
• sendMessage('event'): Trigger event

• Dead simple API
• Only cares about application logic

import * as Channeru from 'channeru'

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

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

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

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

Wrap up

• Cross envornment commnication
• A small library to solve messaging pain
• TypeScript Rocks

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