What are the files with .coffee extension found in the source of Google Chrome plugin Vimium? - file-extension

What are the files with .coffee extension found in the source of Google Chrome plugin Vimium?
Thanks for your help

It's CoffeeScript. Basically it's a different way of writing JavaScript in a more succinct manner. It has to be "compiled" to JavaScript before it can be ran.

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Neutralino - Obfuscate resources file?

Is there some way to Obfuscate the code that is inside the resources.neu file?
It can be read in any text editor... it contains the CSS HTML and JS content.
Not a big problem but can it be done?
Thanks
The .neu file is generated when you build your neutralino app, so you should obfuscate your source files first, and only then, build your neutralino app. The generated .neu file will contain the obfuscated code. To obfuscate your code there are a few solutions available, but Jscrambler seems to offer the most complete suite.
As of January 2022 Neutralino Uses Electron's Asar Format to bundle all the files together at one place which can be easily uncompressed using the same tool.
You can use code Bundlers like ES Build or Webpack which will bundle and minify your Code and your bundled code is pretty much unreadable.
For Webpack there is a plugin Webpack Obfuscator which can be used to obfuscate your code even more.

is node.js merely a functions file that has files in it? (read the question detail for more detail)

When I download node.js from the internet through bash shell commands, am I merely downloading a "functions" folder that has many files in them, or am I downloading anything else besides that?
This question came from the shocking realization I got when I downloaded AngularJS framework and realized it was literally a one page document and nothing more.
Node.js contains a compiled executable that can load and run Javascript code.
This exposes quite a few built in functions that run compiled code within the executable, as well lots of other plain javascript in plain *.js files that make up the standard library.
But to run all that Node.js integrates the V8 javascript engine which is written in C++ and then compiled for your operating system.
When you download Angular, it is meant to run in a browser. That browser provides the execution environment. So all Anglular must provide is it's own code, which you can then leverage for your own projects. Javascript libraries really are just Javascript.
Think of Node.js more like your web browser. It's a program that can execute Javascript, as well as provides the basic functionality you need to write Javascript programs.

Generating HTML documentation site from "mark down (.md)" files

Is there something similar to "maven site plugin (javadoc)" is available for node? To be more specific, we are looking for a node package which can covert .md files in a reactjs project into html files. By convention each folder of our project has a markdown file which holds detailed documentation. We are looking for a tool (cli) which we can fire during the build process to create a documentation folder in the build (destination directory)- specifically interested in static HTML generation.
Thanks,
San
What have you looked for so far? Just googling "node MD to HTML" gives plenty of potential modules like this one and this one.
Have you tried some and they haven't worked? What have you looked for?
Found https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/documenting.html for my project. Awesome tool (though it is not equivalent to Maven Site).

Using libuv to watch for file changes

I want to build a Chrome Extension for the Developer Tools that watches for changes a given folder and refreshes/updates the CSS/JS/image files in the browser.
There is a similar approach already:
http://tin.cr
Tin.cr uses NPAPI which is not sandboxed and has some security issues, so I can't use it in some dev environments where company polices have strict rules (specially in the financial industry).
Another approach is to use NaCl (Chrome's Native Client, which is sandboxed).
I am a front-end dev, with little knowledge in C, so I need some help, please.
How can I watch/monitor file changes in libuv? If someone could provide a code snippet I would greatly appreciate it.
From what I understand from the docs, libuv would allow the extension to work cross-platform, am I wrong?
Thanks
NaCl doesn't have an API to watch changes in a given folder on disk. Can you use Google Drive? Google Drive has an API for getting list of changed files: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/changes/list.

Simple example for NPAPI plugin

I'm trying to find a simple example on how to write an NPAPI plugin that will be bundled with my Chrome extension.
The thing I need to do with the NPAPI is simply to run an already existing local program that I have the local path for.
Could not find any simple examples that will allow me to do this.
I start from
OSX
https://github.com/niw/open_with_default
Linux/ WinNT
http://code.google.com/p/npapi-file-io/
thanks above
and then
Put them together into my npapi plugin
have a look at
https://github.com/tg123/chrome-hostadmin
The firebreath NPAPI framework seems to have decent documentation: http://www.firebreath.org/display/documentation/FireBreath+Home

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