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Additional architecture docs

Thor Galle edited this page Oct 9, 2022 · 2 revisions

The main documentation about web can be found in the readme.

This wiki contains additional architecture documentation.

How the Readup extension communicates with the client & server

Old model of ~June 2021

This diagram shows how the standalone reader extension version of around June 2021 used to communicate with the Readup API and Readup client through its own event page, under the deprecated manifest v2 model.

We changed this model around July 2021 when the Readup web app was stripped down and combined with a thinner extension that only activated the Readup app (the current version in October 2022). Now we're re-enabling Readup on the web (see https://github.com/reallyreadit/web/issues/50), under a new manifest v3 extension model.

Communication diagram between extensions client (manifest v2) ✍️ Source Google Drawings link

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