Inspiration
Thought about a good use case for the fedimint web sdk and came up with this. I figured it'd be cool to have a lightning browser extension that also supports ecash as well.
What it does
Exposes some essential APIs through the window such as window.nostr, window.webln, and a new one - window.fedimint. Provides handlers for each method that requires approval.
Also serves as a lightning wallet you can open by clicking on the extension icon.
How me built it
Blood, Sweat, Tears, other bodily fluids.
A night with two hours of sleep.
And Neovim, btw.
Challenges me ran into
Web SDK didn't work since it was attempting to run a web worker from a service worker, lacking lots of browser APIs.
Couldn't polyfill it.
I built what I could.
Accomplishments that me are proud of
A pretty polished UI scheme (in my opinion).
Learned how to make extensions and how to send messages back and forth between the browser and the extension.
Set a new record for staying up late at night.
What me learned
What a mess the javascript ecosystem is (again)
What service workers are and how they work.
What's next for Fedimint-Web
It would be a shame to trash a UI like this.
I say ship it soon.