This repo has been archived as a record of the things I made when I was learning to code throughout highschool. Read on for a quick guide and retrospective, otherwise you can check out my current projects on my website.
This was my first foray into building Google Chrome Extensions, aimed at injecting a stylesheet into the homepage of Compass, a school management platform which was in use at my highschool at the time.
So why? Well, in 2020 Compass was using an absolutely archaic UI design, and I, as a 16 year old amateur "coder", knew the solution! I went about writing my own CSS file to override the Web 1.0 components on the homepage, which I would access everyday to see my schedule and assignments coming up.
Unlike my previous works, I actually wrote all of the main CSS myself, with the help of a few friends and the internet. Additionally, this was the first time I came accross FontAwesome, which I would use extensively in the coming years.
Later, in 2021, I would also experiment with Sass for the first time, to limited success. I attempted to convert the whole nearly 300-line codebase (which seemed pretty impressive at the time) to a series of modular .scss files, a skill which I learned during my work exprience at Emprevo in 2019 due to their use of Angular in the development stack. This was a pretty tame introduction into the joys of refactoring code.
All of this being said, I learned a lot from this project despite it being of little practical value, with the skills following me on to this day 😆. Particularly, building more Chrome Extensions played a large part in me learning more practical and nuanced JS skills, which I would then transition into a variety of other languages.