nimforum mirror - Chrome Extensions with Nim, who would have thought?

Niminem (orginal) [2021-03-25T23:59:34+01:00] view original

How much do I like programming in Javascript you asked?

Every time I have to write curly braces I get heart palpitations if that gives you a clue lol

I've automated a lot of my workflow with Nim so far, and built some really cool stuff. To date, it's all been desktop applications. Unfortunately, there's work that can only be done in the browser and I resisted making Chrome Extensions for months because I didn't want to go through the pain of re-learning and using JS again. I need to have scripts that auto-magically do things like:

-validating schema markup on a page

-counting the number of times certain words appear on a page

-displaying and counting the characters of a page's title tag and meta description

I had a eureka moment today and thought "hmmm.. couldn't I just use Nim and target the JS backend"? Well let me tell you my friends, it works. And it works beautifully. It almost feels illegal, like I'm SUPPOSED to be writing in JS.

That's all I wanted to share really. Chrome extensions are REALLY simple to make, there are TONS of chrome extension tutorials out there. I just used this guy's tut and it was all I needed to start building something pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipa58NVGs_c&t=669s

Perhaps this can be another creative outlet for some of you guys, or even a potential revenue source ;)

gemath (orginal) [2021-03-27T10:01:58+01:00] view original

That's not an announcement. If "it works", as you say, then where's the code? Looks nice and official though, using the Nim logo as your avatar. And it's good promo for a yt video.

Araq (orginal) [2021-03-27T10:19:49+01:00] view original

Sorry, it's my fault, I changed it to "announcement". I changed it back to "default".

Niminem (orginal) [2021-03-27T15:41:01+01:00] view original

Yeah, if only I had the time to make a video :(

I had originally wanted to start doing YT tuts for Nim and even bought nimprogramming.com for companion posts to the vids... but I'm going to have to sit on it all for now, I got way too busy on my business.

I'll put a repo up though of the sample I made. I'll drop it here later today

juancarlospaco (orginal) [2021-03-27T19:34:58+01:00] view original

Now we need someone to make a Chrome Extension using Nim. ;D

juancarlospaco (orginal) [2021-03-28T06:59:41+02:00] view original

Browser Plugin written 100% in Nim

https://github.com/juancarlospaco/geoguessrnim#geoguessrnim-browser-plugin

akavel (orginal) [2021-03-29T01:13:08+02:00] view original

I wrote one (a Webextension) for Firefox for my private use: https://github.com/akavel/bookwin

Niminem (orginal) [2021-03-31T19:32:28+02:00] view original

Hell yeah. My man

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