notion-enhancer/DOCUMENTATION.md

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ended up here? this is a wip version of the enhancer, and this file is yet to be completed. if you're interested in using the project, switch back to the master branch. for support, contact me on discord dragonwocky#8449 or open an issue here in the repo.

want to contribute? check the the contribution guidelines.

module creation

to understand best how notion's app works, check out the electron docs and explore the contents of your local extracted app.asar.

explore out the existing modules for examples of how the below is implemented.

each directory in the mods folder is considered a module, and consist of 5 files:

file	description
meta.js	required: entry point, describes the module
hack.js	optional: executed on enhancement (useful for e.g. find/replace on files, modding that can't be done just through insertion)
main.js	optional: executed on app launch in the "main" process (singular, shared between all apps - consider it a backend) of app/main/main.js
renderer.js	optional: executed on window launch in the "renderer" process (per-window, the client-side js one might expect to run on a website) of app/renderer/preload.js
styles.css	optional: css file automatically inserted into each app window via the enhancement:// protocol

meta

module.exports =

key	value	type
id	required: uuidv4	string
type	required: 'extension' or 'theme'	string
name	required: short name (e.g. 'frameless window')	string
desc	optional: 1-3 sentence description of what the module is/does	string
version	required: semver (e.g. '0.3.7')	string
author	required: github username	string
thumbnail	optional: image: relative file or url	string
options	optional: see below: options made available in the enhancer menu (accessible from the tray)	array

module.exports.options =

key	value	type
key	required: key to save value to the mod store	string
type	required: 'toggle', 'select', 'input' or 'file'	string
label	required: short description of option to be shown in menu	string
value	optional: default or possible value/s for option	see below

module.exports.options.value =

option type	value
toggle	boolean
select	array
input	string
file	none

scripting

hack.js

module.exports = function (store, __notion) {};

main.js renderer.js

module.exports = function (store) {};

the store argument allows access to the module settings/options defined in meta.js, set in the menu, or used internally by the module. each module store is saved to + automatically syncs with ~/.notion-enhancer/id.json. it can be initialised with const data = store({ defaults }), then used as if it were a normal object.

the __notion argument gives the filepath of the app parent folder. use it for e.g. find/replace on pre-existing app code in __notion/app/renderer/createWindow.js to make the window frameless.

shared variables/classes/functions in the helpers.js file: for consistency of error handling and cross-platform functionality these should be used to achieve their purpose.

require('../../pkg/helpers.js');

{
  // used to differentiate between "enhancer failed" and "code broken" errors.
  class EnhancerError {},
  // checks if being run on the windows subsystem for linux:
  // used to modify windows notion app.
  is_wsl,
  // ~/.notion-enhancer absolute path.
  data_folder,
  // transform a wsl filepath to its relative windows filepath if necessary.
  // every file path inserted by hack.js should be put through this.
  realpath(wsl_path),
  // wait for console input, returns keys when enter pressed.
  readline(),
  // gets notion app filepath (the __notion argument above).
  getNotion(),
  // attempts to read a JSON file, falls back to empty object.
  getJSON(file),
  // promisified https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_exec_command_options_callback
  exec(command, options),
}

styling

css vars to be documented