OpenCtx browser extension

The OpenCtx browser extension enhances your code host's UI with contextual info from your other dev tools.

Usage

Install it for:

• Google Chrome
• Coming soon: Firefox, Safari, Brave, Arc, Edge, and any other browser that supports the WebExtensions API

Supported code hosts:

• GitHub (code view, pull request diff view)
• Coming soon: GitLab, Bitbucket Cloud & Server

Setup

After installing it in Chrome, visit the following pages to see it in action:

• Example code file on GitHub
• Example pull request on GitHub

Click the extension's icon to change your configuration.

Screenshots

See relevant docs when reviewing a GitHub PR

And when viewing files on GitHub.

Known issues

No remotely hosted .js OpenCtx providers

Because of the restriction on remotely hosted code in Chrome extensions, the browser extension does not support all OpenCtx context providers.

Supported providers:

• All providers that are implemented as an HTTP endpoint
• The following additional providers:
  • Links
  • Storybook
  • Prometheus
  • Hello World

Unsupported providers:

• Any other provider that is implemented as a JavaScript bundle executed on the client

GitHub pull request files are annotated with only partial file contents

Only the displayed portion of the diffs of GitHub pull request files are sent to the OpenCtx provider. Providers do not receive the full contents of the changed files, nor do they receive the diff markers to let them know whether each line was an addition, removal, edit, or context.

Development

• Source code
• Docs
• License: Apache 2.0