Browser's new tab page extension

Your own start page. Simplify your new tab and home page in your favorite web browser.

The project is designed to be fully open-sourced and developed by the users. You're more than welcome to contribute with a fix, new translation, or a new feature. You can always describe the problem or idea in a new ticket. The community will then take care of its resolution.

If you don't want to use the public instance you can always run your own. The how-to guide can be found below.

⭐Features

The design is strongly inspired by Windows Spotlight (= Windows 10 lock screen) - picture and time with a few additional features.

• Weather
• Time
• Quick links
• Pictures provided by Unsplash - the largest community-driven photo gallery. Select a topic and your background picture will change every 30 minutes
• Notes from favorite service Todoist
• Works offline. All data are stored locally and are only refreshed once the internet re-connected
• Secure and personal - no personal data are collected. Your privacy stays protected
• Fully Open-Sourced and forever free

Public instance

Firefox addon: My Spotlight

Contribution

This project is fully community-driven. Any ideas for improvement or help with the development are highly regarded.

How to report a bug or new idea?

1. Go to the issues tab and click "New Issue"
2. Describe the problem or your new idea as thoroughly as possible. Add screenshots or sketches if you can
3. Submit the issue
4. The issue will be triaged and resolved by the community

How to contribute with a code?

1. Go to issues and choose the one you want to implement, ideally any that was already triaged
2. Once you're done implementing the issue create a pull request to the master branch. It will be reviewed and subsequently merged

If you have any questions for the author or community raise the question directly in the issue.

Development

1. Download the project.
2. Create .env.local from .env.local.template and copy your own API keys for Unsplash and OpenWeatherMap services. This step is optional if you don't want to develop weather and background picture features
3. Run the local dev server

   npm i
   npm run serve

To build the web version

1. Run npm run build
2. All generated files can be found in the dist folder

To build your extension instance

1. Edit the name in public/manifest.json and the name and version in package.json
2. Run npm run generate
3. All generated files can be found in the packages folder
4. Register new extension for Firefox or Chrome and upload zip files from the previous folder