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Project Overview

100% vanilla JS Chrome / Firefox extension for Discogs.com.

https://www.discogs-enhancer.com

Chrome Webstore Link

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/discogs-enhancer/fljfmblajgejeicncojogelbkhbobejn

Firefox Add-on Link

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/discogs-enhancer/

A Web Extension for Chrome and Firefox

Discogs Enhancer adds extra features to both Discogs.com and Chrome / Firefox. You can block sellers, use a dark theme, see price comparisons, get feedback notifications, convert foreign currencies, search Discogs and other online record shops with any highlighted text, improve tracklist readability, customize lots of Marketplace aspects, and more! Every feature is optional so you can choose the features you want to use.

Features

• Block Sellers
• Block Buyer Shortcuts
• Favorite Sellers
• Compare suggested prices to listed prices
• Contextual menu searching
• Ask for confirmation before removing items from your Collection
• Quick currency conversion
• Multiple Dark Themes (WCAG 2.0 AA compliant)
• Demand Index
• Scan Artist/Label releases for comments
• Scan your seller inventory for items priced below the median Marketplace value
• Tweak Artist/Label Discriminators
• Everlasting Marketplace
• Buyer/Seller feedback notifications
• Seller inventory ratings
• Sort items in the Marketplace by total price (including shipping)
• Get larger BAOI fields when editing releases
• Tag Sellers based on reputation
• Filter Marketplace items by media condition
• Filter Marketplace items by sleeve condition
• Filter Marketplace items by shipping country
• Filter Marketplace items by availability
• Filter Marketplace items by price
• Open items in Lists in new tabs
• Editing notepad for Releases
• Search Google for releases by clicking on the release title
• Hide Min, Median, Max columns on the Collection page
• Marketplace Media/Sleeve condition highlights
• See the number of ratings/votes a release received in the Marketplace
• See icons next to seller's names in the Marketplace when you have items of theirs in your cart
• See release ratings/votes expressed as a percentage
• Notes character counter
• See actual dates an item was added to your Collection/Wantlist
• See the relative date an item was last sold in the Marketplace
• See the average sale price on the Release page
• Tag seller's names with an icon in the Marketplace when you have an item of theirs in your cart
• View a random item from your collection from any page
• Remove an item from your Wantlist directly from the Marketplace
• See the total playing time for any release when track times are provided
• Sort dialog boxes and Marketplace filters alphabetically
• Easily format comments/reviews using Text Formatting Shortcuts
• Improve Tracklist readability

Performance

Discogs Enhancer gets a near perfect score with Google's Lighthouse when it comes to impact on user experience. Audit was performed using Exhouse in June of 2019.

Overview

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Installation

• git clone https://github.com/salcido/discogs-enhancer.git
• change into the new directory
• npm install

Running / Development

• Watch for changes:
  • npm run watch:chrome - watches for changes and builds to chrome-dist
  • npm run watch:firefox - watches for changes and builds to firefox-dist
  • npm run watch - watches for changes and builds to both chrome-dist and firefox-dist

Building Chrome

• Export the extension to chrome-dist directory:
  • npm run build:chrome
  • Go to chrome://extensions in a new Chrome tab
  • Click "Developer Mode" in the upper-right corner
  • Click "Load Unpacked" and choose the exported chrome-dist folder and you're done!

Building Firefox

• Export the extension to firefox-dist directory:
  • npm run build:firefox
  • Go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox in a new Firefox tab
  • Click "Load Temporary Add-On" and choose the manifest.json file in the exported firefox-dist folder and you're done!

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🏗 Adding a Feature

In order to add a togglable feature to the extension you'll need to update the files listed below. This guide assumes you've added a new <feature>.js file to js/extension/features/ and that it does not require additional CSS files, configuration pages, or submenus. Features that require their own configuration pages or submenus are more complex and are out of scope for this guide.

1️⃣ background.js

• Add a new property to the prefs object of background.js. It should be a boolean and have a unique name that easily identifies the feature. Make sure to add the property in the correct alphabetical position.

2️⃣ user-preferences.js

• Add a conditional check for the new prefs property under the Preference-dependent scripts comment block. This should check the preference and create a DOM element that contains the necessary script files for the new feature.

Example:

  if ( prefs.featureName ) {

    let featureName = document.createElement('script');

    featureName.type = 'text/javascript';
    featureName.src = chrome.runtime.getURL('js/extension/features/feature-name.js');
    featureName.className = 'de-init';

    elems.push(featureName);
  }

3️⃣ popup.html

• Modify popup.html with the new preference menu option. Update the markup with a unique id, help-bubble text, and meta keywords. Make sure to add the markup in the correct alphabetical position.

Example:

    <!-- title of the new feature -->
    <div class="toggle-group">
      <p class="label">title of the new feature</p>
      <div class="meta hide">Keywords that represent the feature go here. These are used as metadata when searching.</div>

      <div class="onoffswitch">
        <input type="checkbox" name="onoffswitch" class="onoffswitch-checkbox" id="toggleNewFeatureName" checked>
        <label class="onoffswitch-label" for="toggleNewFeatureName">
          <span class="onoffswitch-inner"></span>
          <span class="onoffswitch-switch"></span>
        </label>
      </div>

      <div class="help feature-name">
        <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-help-circle" color="#384047"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="10"></circle><path d="M9.09 9a3 3 0 0 1 5.83 1c0 2-3 3-3 3"></path><line x1="12" y1="17" x2="12" y2="17"></line></svg>
        <div class="help-bubble">
          <div class="help-text">
            A short description of the new feature goes here.
          </div>
          <div class="arrow-right stroke"></div><div class="arrow-right"></div>
        </div>
      </div> <!-- /.help -->
    </div>

4️⃣ utils.js

• Update the applySave method in utils.js with the same property name used in background.js. Be sure to reference the id set in the popup.html markup and add the property in the correct alphabetical position.

Example:

export function applySave(message, event) {

  let prefs = {
    ...
    featureName: document.getElementById('toggleFeatureName').checked,
    ...
  }
}

5️⃣ popup.js

Make the following changes to popup.js:

• Update the load eventListener with the new property.
• Add a new change eventListener under the Event listeners for toggles comment block.
• Update the chrome.storage.sync.get callback with the new property.

6️⃣ learn.html

Add the feature description to learn.html. Make sure to insert the new markup block in the correct alphabetical order.

Example:

    <div class="feature-block">
      <!-- Feature Name -->
      <h2 id="featureName">Feature Name</h2>

      <p>Supporting text describing how the feature works.</p>
      <!-- supporting image(s) if needed -->
      <img src="../img/learn/feature-image.png" class="max-width" />
    </div>

📦 Build The Extension

Since changes have been made to webpack, the extension will need to be rebuilt by running npm run build:chrome or npm run build:firefox. Once the build is finished, load the extension in Chrome/Firefox by following the Running / Development instructions above.

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Author

• Matthew Salcido - salcido