contributors guide

seeking contributors!

this is a FOSS effort and will never be commercialized (no tracking, will not be a paid app (but the chat apps within might), etc). please check out the feature requests (https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc) if you'd like to help! in particular, we'd like:

• a PR to make the 3 panels customizable to different URLs and input targets!
• a "Windows maintainer" to handle Windows user needs and beta test every release to make sure we didn't break something for them

Install and Run from Source

To install and run from source, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository and navigate to the project folder:

   git clone https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode.git
   cd GodMode
   

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install
   

3. Start the application and generate the platform-specific desktop file:

   npm run start
   

   This command will launch the application and automatically generate the appropriate desktop file or shortcut for your operating system (Linux, macOS, or Windows).

adding/fixing providers

The best way to contribute is to add new providers or improve existing ones. Check out the providers folder to see how they work.

The Provider base class is https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode/blob/main/src/providers/provider.js and mostly you have to do 3 things to add a provider:

• edit the var inputElement = document.querySelector('div.ProseMirror') to target the right element for chat input
• edit the var btn = document.querySelector("button[aria-label*='Send Message']"); to target the right button element to send the message
• (optional) edit the handleCss to clean up the UI for a small window view

See https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode/blob/main/src/providers/claude2.js for a simple reference. Sometimes it gets more complicated, like Bing provider, because of the DOM structure

debugging

I have the devtools up all the time while in development. You can disable them by commenting this line.

window.webContents.openDevTools();

building and notarizing

Apple is a piece of sht.

copy .env.example to .env and follow https://www.electronforge.io/guides/code-signing/code-signing-macos (we tried option 1, but eventually ended up with option 2 as you see below)

then you have to generate a bunch of stuff https://medium.com/ascentic-technology/getting-an-electron-app-ready-for-macos-distribution-2941fce27450

$ spctl -a -vvv -t install smolmenubar.app
smolmenubar.app: accepted
source=Notarized Developer ID
origin=Developer ID Application: Shawn Wang (7SVH735GV7)

all of this has now been packaged into a script called npm run buildAndSign. Note that for now, this script ONLY runs on swyx's macbook air inside the terminal (and somehow NOT in vsocde, i dont know why). If you are experienced with electron signing and notarizing, please help us make this work for all contributors!

npm run buildAndSign

> smolmenubar@0.0.16 buildAndSign
> NODE_ENV=sign npm run make


> smolmenubar@0.0.16 make
> electron-forge make --arch arm64,x64

✔ Checking your system
✔ Loading configuration
✔ Resolving make targets
  › Making for the following targets: dmg
✔ Loading configuration
✔ Resolving make targets
  › Making for the following targets: dmg
✔ Running package command
  ✔ Preparing to package application
  ✔ Running packaging hooks
    ✔ Running generateAssets hook
    ✔ Running prePackage hook
  ✔ Packaging application
    ✔ Packaging for arm64 on darwin [2m15s]
    ✔ Packaging for x64 on darwin [2m27s]
  ✔ Running postPackage hook
✔ Running preMake hook
✔ Making distributables
  ✔ Making a dmg distributable for darwin/arm64 [7s]
  ✔ Making a dmg distributable for darwin/x64 [8s]
✔ Running postMake hook
  › Artifacts available at: /Users/swyx/Documents/Work/smol-menubar/out/make

publishing to app store

NOTE: we havent actually gotten this working yet, i just straight up gave up

the below from https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-builds/upload-builds is something like what we want

xcrun altool --validate-app -f smolmenubar.app -t macos -u shawnthe1@gmail.com

but doesnt work

xcrun altool --validate-app -f smolmenubar.app --type macos -u shawnthe1@gmail.com
shawnthe1@gmail.com's password:

2023-07-04 00:09:32.533 *** Error: Validation failed for 'smolmenubar.app'.
2023-07-04 00:09:32.534 *** Error: Unable to determine app platform for 'Undefined' software type. App Store operation failed. (1194)
 {
    NSLocalizedDescription = "Unable to determine app platform for 'Undefined' software type.";
    NSLocalizedFailureReason = "App Store operation failed.";
    NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion = "Unable to determine app platform for 'Undefined' software type.";
}