aalu1418 / chromeextension-newtab

A simple Google Chrome extension for a new tab page with weather powered by NOAA

Chrome Extension: New Page + Time + Weather + TTC updates

A small personal project to create a Google Chrome extension for a new tab page with weather

Powered by:

Weather: NOAA
Location: IPAPI
Icons: @erikflowers/weather-icons

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Application Views:

Check out the hosted link!

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Functionality:

Originally inspired by Currently Chrome Extension

But simpler, more stripped down and customizable.

• Weather (with hourly forecast)

Future improvements:

• Weather alerts
• manually configured location

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Download Extension

Download the .crx file from the latest github release

Note: Use the following instructions below to build the .crx file locally.

Building Extension

Note: The original purpose of this project was to customize a home screen - not for large scale deployment/distribution. Please use the various APIs according to policies specified. The purpose of this document is to simply relay how to deploy this extension on a personal platform.

Instructions:

1. git clone https://github.com/aalu1418/chromeExtension-newTab
2. In Google Chrome, go to chrome://extensions and enable Developer mode
3. Select Pack extension and browse to the Extension root directory
4. Select Pack extension and two files will be generated chromeExtension-newTab.crx and chromeExtension-newTab.pem

Installing Extension

(note: make sure Developer mode is enabled)

1. From your file browser, click and drag chromeExtension-newTab.crx onto the chrome://extensions page and install the extension

chromeextension-newtab's Issues

remove color picker, default to black

Doesn't refresh until tab has been open for a while

fix moon phase icons (waning crescent issue)

update weather icon package (use actual repo - not npm package)

background color turns back to black after refresh

color is maintained in options menu, but main background switches back to black after a refresh

current weather alerts are not displaying

convert to use gh-pages

replace darksky api with openweathermap api

remove cors-anywhere usage

small screen / mobile screen adaptation

multiple alerts for the same line displays repeated links

remove offline data, show an offline notice instead