HyperChat - Improved YouTube Chat

Install

HyperChat is available in the Chrome and Firefox stores.

See https://livetl.app/hyperchat/install

Building from Source

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

For legacy reasons, we have a mv2 branch used by the LiveTL extension's Manifest V2 Firefox variant, while the main branch houses the main Manifest V3 version that's published to stores.

Development

Note: The repo expects a Linux or Unix-like environment. If you are on Windows, use WSL.

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/LiveTL/HyperChat

Open the repository and npm install:

cd HyperChat
npm install # install dependencies

Serve the extension for local development:

npm run dev:chrome    # devserver for Chrome extension
npm run dev:firefox   # devserver for Firefox extension

npm run start:chrome  # devserver + open extension in Chrome
npm run start:firefox # devserver + open extension in Firefox

Building for Production

Our build script is an automated GitHub action, where ${{ github.ref }} should evaluate to a tag in the format vX.Y.Z (where X.Y.Z is the version number).

To simulate the build:

VERSION=X.Y.Z npm run build         # Chrome & Firefox
VERSION=X.Y.Z npm run build:chrome  # just Chrome
VERSION=X.Y.Z npm run build:firefox # just Firefox

The built ZIP files can be found in the build directory.