Text Chrome App

Just a text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. Install via the Chrome Web Store: stable version or canary version.

Getting the code

You can download the whole source code as one archive, or get it from the repository using git:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/text-app.git

Prebuild CodeMirror

Do this before running the development version or building the package. You'll need Node.js.

cd third_party/codemirror.next
npm install
npm run rebuild

If you make changes to bundle.ts or the dependencies in package.json in third_party/codemirror.next/, you must rebuild CodeMirror: npm run rebuild.

Running the development version

• Check Developer Mode in chrome://extensions
• Click "Load unpacked extension..." in chrome://extensions and select the text-app directory.

Building the package

You do not have to build the app to install it in Chrome. Building will just extract all the required files and minify the JS code.

Building script requires Python3 and will use online Closure Compiler. Just run

python3 build.py

and the package will be written to text-app/build/ directory in zipped and unzipped formats (canary version). To build the stable version run the build script with the flag -s.