chucktrukk / email-signatures

A Chrome Extension that automagically adds links from RSS feeds to the end of emails sent in the Gmail web client

Gmail Signatures Extension

Development

Prerequisites

• NodeJS -- The runtime the application requires

Setting up development environment

• Clone the repository -- git clone
• Change in repository directory -- cd email-signatures
• Install the dependencies -- npm install
• Build the extension -- npm run build
• Open up Google Chrome at the URL chrome://extensions
• Check the "Developer mode' checkbox
• Click the button 'Load unpacked extension'
• Select the 'build' folder from within the 'email-signatures' directory
• Visit https://mail.google.com and compose a new email, you should have a signature added of FT articles!

Deploying to Chrome Webstore

• Bump the version number within './src/manifest.json' accordingly
• Build the extension -- npm run build
• Zip up the contents of './build'
• Open the Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard
• View all items by the internal publisher
• Open the edit page for FTLabs Gmail Signatures
• Click the 'Upload Updated Package' button
• Locate your zipped file and upload.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button 'Publish changes'