
Astro Linker Chrome Extension – A Fun Personal Project by todsacerdoti
A little Chrome extension for my own personal use. It helps make creating links on my site a bit easier.
The Problem
This site is built using Astro, and I’ve become a huge fan. I recently added a new feature that lets me add Links, which are
just links to other websites that I’ve found useful for one reason or another. The idea and implementation are working well, but I’ve encountered an issue
in actually using the feature because it’s just kind of a pain to have to create the file.
The current process is:
- Grab the URL of the page.
- Create a new file in the
src/content/links
directory. - Add the frontmatter to the file. I end up needing to copy/paste the URL, the title, and sometimes the description.
- Commit the file, push to GitHub, and wait for the site to update.
It’s not that bad, but steps two through four all aren’t that good either.
The Solution
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