thelounge-plugin-hover-spoiler

Simple plugin for The Lounge that adds CSS to reveal spoilers (same fg & bg color) on hover

Installation

• If you installed thelounge via npm/yarn:

  thelounge install thelounge-plugin-hover-spoiler

• If you installed thelounge via source:

  node index.js install thelounge-plugin-hover-spoiler

• If you are a user on someone else's thelounge server:

  Copy the plugin's CSS into your user styles

Usage

Styles are added to all clients automatically. Open clients will need to be refreshed after installation, but The Lounge need not be restarted.

Development

gencss.py is used to generate the CSS file:

python3 gencss.py > hover-spoiler.css

Test strings to paste in chat come from genteststr.py.

Dev install

At the time of writing, The Lounge doesn't offer a way to install packages from source without npm; it must be done manually.

The easiest way is installing thelounge locally and adding this plugin as a new package in the $THELOUNGE_HOME/packages directory. For that you need a package.json file in that packages dir that looks like this:

{
    "private": true,
    "description": "Packages for The Lounge. All packages in node_modules directory will be automatically loaded.",
    "dependencies": {
        "thelounge-plugin-hover-spoiler": "1.0.1"
     }
}

The important thing here is the package name. You need to create a folder with that name in the node_modules subdirectory, and place this plugin's files (package.json, index.js, and generated hover-spoiler.css) inside. Copying and pasting will work, but hardlinking or symlinking the files from the project into the packages folder is recommended for any serious development work. For example:

ln package.json /path/to/THELOUNGE_HOME/packages/node_modules/thelounge-plugin-hover-spoiler/package.json
ln index.js /path/to/THELOUNGE_HOME/packages/node_modules/thelounge-plugin-hover-spoiler/index.js
ln hover-spoiler.css /path/to/THELOUNGE_HOME/packages/node_modules/thelounge-plugin-hover-spoiler/hover-spoiler.css

You can then just edit the files in the local git repository folder. Changes will be picked up any time The Lounge is restarted.

History

I started this in a gist in November 2020: https://gist.github.com/dgw/3aac59b4103b5ea8f4ca6e0b0f18d27b

In December 2022, I got wind that questions about this kind of spoiler tagging were becoming quite frequent, and the link to my gist was being pasted a lot. It seemed like it'd be nice if the CSS was available as a plugin. Fortunately The Lounge's package API had progressed to the point of allowing such functionality, and this plugin was born.