btimby / stegman-extension

Stegman web browser extension

Stegman

Stegman is a steganographic messaging browser extension. It allows you to hide messages inside text that you post to social media or send via email.

Specifically, this extension provides a button for any input fields it finds on various websites. When you click the button, you can then provide a secret message to embed in the content of the input field.

development

running application

Build the application using make build. Then you can install the extension into your browser using manifest.json. You can build continuously using make build-watch to ensure the dist/ directory is up-to-date as you make changes.

running tests

To run tests use make test. You can also use make test-watch to run tests continuously. Finally, you can produce a coverage report with make test-coverage.

making a release

To make a release run npm version, the following example will increment the patch number 1.0.n and commit a new tag.

$ npm version patch

This command will also increment the version number in manifest.json.

build xpi

$ make build-xpi