Reroot

May 31, 2022 ยท View on GitHub

Reroot is an extension for chromium based browsers that injects content when the user visits twitter.com, allowing them to post to lens protocol and twitter at the same time.

This project is an attempt to bootstrap the twitter userbase into the Lens ecosystem by making it convenient and comfortable to use for the average twitter user.

How to install

  1. Download the reroot.zip file in the latest release found here and unzip. Screen Shot 2022-05-29 at 1 51 12 PM

  2. Navigte to chrome://extensions in your browser and enable "Developer mode". Screen Shot 2022-05-29 at 1 55 54 PM

  3. Click "Load unpacked" and select the unzipped reroot folder from step 1. Screen Shot 2022-05-29 at 1 56 29 PM

  4. You should now see the reroot extension added and ready to use. Screen Shot 2022-05-29 at 1 56 56 PM

Warning

Network detection can be buggy, before connecting to your wallet to the extension please make sure you are connected to either the Polygon or Mumbai networks.

Development

  1. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the values with your api keys:
INFURA_ID=""
PINATA_API_KEY=""
PINATA_API_SECRET=""
  1. Ensure you have Node installed and run the following to build the extension:
yarn
yarn build

  1. Open your browser extensions manager and enable developer mode. Then Load unpacked and choose the dist folder within this repo.

  2. Navigate to twitter.com and you should now see the Lens button beside tweet