I Hate GitHub White Space Extension Chrome

Automatically adds the hide white space filter to the GitHub diff view.

Latest Version

Version

1.2

Update

April 9, 2024

Size

29.36KiB

Developer

I Hate GitHub White Space Extension

GitHub's website doesn't have a way to persist their \"hide white space\" setting in the code diff view. This slows down workflow when reviewing code changes.

This applies to...
1. Pull Request file diffs pages
2. Commit diffs pages

The extension detects if the white space setting is toggled by checking for the `w` in the URL query/search parameters. If the query param is not set to anything, the extension adds w=1 (hide white space).

By checking for the existence of the `w` param, it will allow users to have w=0 on purpose if they want to purposely show white space.

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There is an existing extension for this, however, I believe they're not secure enough. My extension only uses a Chrome content script (scripts that only run in the context of one tab/page) and is limited only to https://github.com/*

The URL check function runs when you navigate to a page on github.com and when the URL changes within the current page.

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GitHub Repo: https://github.com/hmh84/i-hate-github-whitespace
Issues and Feature Requests: https://github.com/hmh84/i-hate-github-whitespace/issues

Source Manifest.json

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