Inspiration
After the covid pandemic, we have noticed the tremendous use of devices such as laptops or computers, be it for work from home or online classes or anything. Around 2.65 billion users use Google Chrome for internet browsing. While working, one can continuously grind whatever the person is doing without thinking of taking a break or maybe forgetting to drink water. I myself have faced this and to solve this, I have built a chrome extension that works as a reminder.
What it does
Take Break is a chrome extension that reminds you at a certain interval specified by you by sending you an alert/notification on your computer to take a break from your work or classes.
How we built it
Take Break chrome extension is built using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Manifest V3, and JSON as its main tech stack.
Challenges we ran into
It was my first time creating a chrome extension. Earlier I did not have any idea what the manifest file was. To get an idea about how the chrome extension is made, I went through the Chrome developer's documentation. I learned how to manifest file works, and how chrome sends async messages to deal with the responses in background.js.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Overall, it was new learning for me and it gave me a kickstart to creating a more complex chrome extension which solves a real-world problem.
What we learned
What's next for Take Break
I will be adding more functionality, making it more user-friendly, and will try to make it more complex by releasing the new version.
Built With
- chrometools
- css
- html
- javascript
- manifest
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