# A Front-End Development Experience Working on the TextSecure Chrome Browser Extension

DevFeed: [A Front-End Development Experience Working on the TextSecure Chrome Browser Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/star-quality-1850.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://signal.org/blog/star-quality/>)

Published: 2015-01-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Signal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Browser Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser-extension.md>), [Backbone.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backbonejs.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>), [Chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>)

Tags: [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome.md>), [extension](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extension.md>), [front-end](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/front-end.md>), [front-end-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/front-end-development.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>)

## AI overview

A personal account of learning front-end development while contributing to the TextSecure Chrome Browser Extension. The author describes using Backbone.js, Grunt, Bower, Mustache, Git, and pull requests while separating phone-number input into a reusable Backbone.js view and validating it across multiple HTML pages.

## Source excerpt

Winter Break Of Code Day 2 Because I might get sappy, here's a picture to ease that before I let it all out. After being promptly woken up by numerous roosters at 7:30 AM, I still can't believe I'm here. My application was pretty last-minute, completed when I was in a state of droopiness and scholarship-application-hyperdrive. But I got on a plane from the Midwest, went from cloudy, 20 degrees with windchill making it feel like 0 to sunny, 77 degrees with mild winds making it feel still 77 degrees. Read more...