🦓 Libra Cryptocurrency Micropayment Chrome Extension

A Libra Cryptocurrency Micropayment Chrome Extension developed with the aim of creating a simple UX that allows readers to bypass paywalls without a paid subscription or access free articles without ads via Libra micropayments.

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Table of contents

• Motivation
• What is Libra?
• Login Credentials
• Live Demo
• Dependencies
• Requirements
• Customer-Client Installation
• Running Customer-Client Locally
• Business-Client Installation
• Running Business-Client Locally
• Tests
• Contributors

Motivation

What is Libra?

Libra is a permissioned blockchain digital currency proposed by the American social media company Facebook. The project, currency and transactions are to be managed and cryptographically entrusted to the Libra Association, a membership organization founded by Facebook's subsidiary Calibra and 27 others across payment, technology, telecommunication, online marketplace, venture capital and nonprofits. The currency and network do not yet exist, and only rudimentary experimental code has been released. The launch is planned to be in 2020.

Login Credentials

Live Demo

• Customer-Client (Chrome Extension)
• Business-Client (Web App)

Dependencies

• React
• Redux
• Material-UI
• Axios

Requirements

• Node.js (v10.16.0)
• Git

Customer-Client Installation

Step 1: Clone Repo

git clone https://github.com/briantam23/sebra-chrome-extension.git` # or clone your own fork

Step 2: Change Directory to customer-client

cd client/customer-client

Step 3: Install node_modules

npm install # or yarn install

Running Customer-Client Locally

1. Make sure you're in the customer-client directory.
2. Run npm run build to put everything required into build folder, then launch chrome://extensions/ in Google Chrome.
3. On the upper-right hand side of the window, make sure developer mode is on.
4. Click “Load unpacked” and open the “build” folder in this project, it should contain index.html, manifest.json, different sizes of logos, and bundled JavaScript files.
5. If you have already published a version in production and you are testing a newer version, you should also disable the production version.
6. To update the extension, run npm build again, and click the “Refresh” button.

Business-Client Installation

Step 1: Clone Repo (if you haven't done so already)

git clone https://github.com/briantam23/sebra-chrome-extension.git` # or clone your own fork

Step 2: Change Directory to business-client

cd client/business-client

Step 3: Install node_modules

npm install # or yarn install

Running Business-Client Locally

1. Make sure you're in the business-client directory.
2. npm run start to run the app in the development mode.
3. Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
4. The page will reload if you make edits.
5. You will also see any lint errors in the console.

Tests

Contributors

Brian Tam
Sydney Lai
Allen Shegay