https://github.com/spookyuser/laconic_hover

Browser extension that shows Laconic text when hovering on a TV Tropes link.
https://github.com/spookyuser/laconic_hover

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Browser extension that shows Laconic text when hovering on a TV Tropes link.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/spookyuser/laconic_hover
• Owner: spookyuser
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-01-03T10:57:30.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-04T19:27:00.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-15T22:44:07.965Z (26 days ago)
• Topics: browser-extension, chrome-extension, finished, firefox-addon, proud-of, tippyjs, tvtropes, webextension
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 872 KB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • Contributing: contributing.md
  • License: LICENSE

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#  Laconic Hover

[link-cws]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/laconic-hover/ignndocldlheghlflchdbokagecncgmm "Version published on Chrome Web Store"

[link-amo]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/laconic-hover/ "Version published on Mozilla Add-ons"

> A browser extension which shows Laconic text when hovering on a TV Tropes link.

TV Tropes is great but its even better when you have the power of a million tropes in the palm of your hand.

## Install

- [**Chrome** extension][link-cws] [][link-cws]

- [**Firefox** add-on][link-amo] [][link-amo]



    



## How?

This used to be a Userscript but its become more of a fully fledged extension. The core of this extension works by fetching "laconic pages" in the TV Tropes wiki. These are ["subpages ... for brief statements describing the core idea of the page they are attached to."](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LaconicWiki)  Thankfully many pages have them and they're very helpful for navigating if you don't know every Trope off by heart. This extension attempts to make a request to the laconic page of any Trope link you happen to be hovering on. If a Laconic page exists, the html is displayed, otherwise an error message is displayed.

This extension uses [tippy.js](https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/) for controlling and displaying hovering elements, which is super neat!

## Hasn't this been done before?

Yes, I think so:

\[[1](http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/130346)]

\[[2](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tropes-helper-beta/nbmecnaokkbfonmbplonmnekhiklkjlm)]  

But neither were ever updated, hopefully this will be different.

## Development

See the npm scripts for more information. To get started make sure [Node.js®](https://nodejs.org/en/) is installed. You can then clone the repo and install the repositories:

```shell

git clone https://github.com/spookyUnknownUser/laconic_hover

cd laconic_hover

pnpm install

```

If you want to play around with the project do the following:

`pnpm run dev`

## Roadmap

I don't have any feature ideas at the moment, so please [click here](https://github.com/spookyUnknownUser/laconic_hover/issues/new) to submit any ideas you might have.

## Contributing

Please see [contributing.md](contributing.md). TL;DR: All are very welcome.

## Acknowledgements

- [lamp by Sandra Mills from the Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=lamp+shade&i=121407)

I would also like to especially thank [@sindresorhus](https://github.com/sindresorhus) and anyone else involved in [refined-github](https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/) for figuring out how to structure a modern web extension and making it easy to copy that structure :)