A Medium article is heavily loaded with Javascript that negatively affects the loading and reading experience of an end-user particularly those on constrained devices. To fix this situation, this Firefox browser plugin strips to its utmost minimum: The content.
This plugin only works in Firefox due to the usage of a web-extension API called filterResponseData that's available nowhere else but Firefox. This API is the key to strip everything but the content before passes it to the renderer.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/medium-unplugged/
# Download the repo
git clone https://github.com/kilgarenone/medium-unplugged.git
## Change directory to the repo
cd medium-unplugged
# open the repo in VSCode
code .Now, there are two ways to develop:
web-extpackage that auto-reload for you- Load your plugin in
about:debugging
https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/getting-started-with-web-ext/
However, in my experience, I found multiple times that when I save it didn't properly reload for me. YMMV.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Your_first_WebExtension
This is my preferred method. It is as robust as it can be.
https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/developing-extensions-for-firefox-for-android/
It's quite complicated to setup, but just follow the instructions laid out in the guide above and you should be fine.
Side note: you don't need to install the whole 'Android Studio' software meant for a full-blown native-app development- You just need the sdkmanager for what's at hand.
When you are ready to publish or update your extension, you will need the web-ext package.
In the root of your directory, run this command:
web-ext build
It will package your plugin in a .zip file which you will upload during the submission.
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