A chrome extension to provide single click toggle between viewing HTML source on GitHub, and browser rendered HTML.
As of May 2017, GitHub has near 60,000 HTML repositories. While the default GitHub interface is great for viewing HTML code, it is hard to see how it finally looks when rendered by the browser. Most developers working on software projects open local copies of HTML files in their browsers to see how they look. While this works for developers actively developing a particular web project, it is not desirable for the many others who use GitHub. If you browse through software projects online, and wish to see how a particular page looks, GitPreview is for you. If you wish to contribute a minor edit on an HTML page, you no longer need to download the repo to your computer, but can now use this extension to shift your entire workflow online to the GitHub web interface.
(I am working on getting this extension up onto the webstore. Until then, use the steps below.)
- Clone or download this repository.
- Open chrome (or chromium) and navigate to the extensions page:
Menu>More Tools>Extensions. - Enable developer mode from the checkbox in the top-right corner.
- Click the
Load unpacked extension...button. - Select GitPreview in the file selection dialog that opens (might be named GitPreview-master on your machine after extracting from zip).
- Navigate to an html page on GitHub, like this one or this one.
- Click the automatically highlighted GitPreview extension icon in the top-right of your browser.
- Wait for the page to redirect and HTML to render.
- Use the back button on your browser or click on the extension again to return to the default GitHub code view.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback, please feel free to write to [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you.
This extension uses a local fork of the excellent htmlpreview project by Jerzy Głowacki to function.
Copyright © 2017 Kaivalya Rawal
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