Hi I want to use solid in chrome extension but i’m confused about how the login would work.
I’ve already tried opening the login popup from a content script. After entering my ID and pressing enter, I was presented with a blank screen with the following message in the console “Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property ‘childNodes’ of null at Object.g [as render] (popup.js:8)”. I wouldn’t know where to start debugging the popup code.
It’s also a bit strange because it appears to log me in (it stores the session data) even though I didn’t enter my password and i cleared localstorage beforehand.
I also need to figure out how to sync the session data across tabs. I’ve briefly looked at a few solutions but i’d like to sort the above issue out first.
Any ideas about this? It is possible to use Solid with a chrome extension?
We have a Chrome Extension that already supports “Save As” operations to a Solid Pod i.e., it uses the Solid Auth Client for authentication at the point of data persistence.
OK looking at the vid i see you are doing the write operations from an “options” page. Yeh this is probably the way to go as it has a fixed url. I guess I can just pass messages from the content script to the options page and back, which also solves the issue having to sync the session data. I would have preferred the login box to be in a popup but it adds unnecessary complication.
