Detonate time tracker extension

Browser extension using Google Sheets as data storage written in React

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Edge
• Opera

Features

• Google Sheet as database storage
  • Privacy. No sharing sensitive data with 3rd party. It's your personal data. It should belong to you.
  • Sheets is way better at handling numbers than me. You can do all kinds of analysis using graphs, formulas, etc.
• Tracking Daily Projects Task
• Daily summary
• Select Cliets, Projects and releted Tickets
• React Popup App and Content Script
  • React Hooks
  • useReducer and Context Api
• CSS-in-JS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Emotion Styled Components
  • Babel Tailwind macro "tw"
  • Dark/Light theme (WIP)
• Custom Webpack
  • Watch mode dev server

Getting started

1. Make a copy of Detonate - Time Tracking Sheet to your drive File -> Make a copy...

2. Note the YOUR_SPREADSHEET_ID of the new sheet (it's part of the URL)

3. Duplicate the DEtonate example tracking sheet with your name and take a note of YOUR_TABLE_NAME

   

4. Edit the rename .env.sample to .envand edit it with your data:

REACT_APP_SPREADSHEET_ID=YOUR_SPREADSHEET_ID
REACT_APP_TABLE_NAME=YOUR_TABLE_NAME

5. Clone, install dependencies

npm install
or
yarn

6. Build the extension

npm run build
or
yarn build

6. Create a Chrome extension with the files in the extension folder (you can follow this guide)

7. Generate a OAuth 2.0 client ID in the Google API Console. Select "Chrome App", and insert your App ID (which is generated when you create the extension).

8. In the manifest.json, replace "google_client_id" with your previously generated OAuth 2.0 client ID and update the "spreadsheetId" with your YOUR_SPREADSHEET_ID

9. Update the .env file with YOUR_CLIENT_ID

REACT_APP_CLIENT_ID=YOUR_CLIENT_ID.apps.googleusercontent.com

9. Generate an API key, leave it as unrestricted, updatethe .env file with the generated API key YOUR_API_KEY

REACT_APP_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY

10. Re-Build the extension and enjoy!

npm run build
or
yarn build

Sharing

Adding another person (for example your partner) to the app is easy – you just give them access to the detonate sheet in Google Sheets.

After that, they have the same access as you are and can traking the time in the projects through the same URL.