GitHub Favorite Repos

A small Chrome extension that pins your favorite GitHub repositories to a bar under the header, on every github.com page.

Features

• Adds a bar directly under GitHub's own header, on every github.com page
• Add a favorite from the bar itself (+ button) or from the extension's popup — the popup also detects the repo you're currently viewing and offers a one-click "add current repo"
• Drag chips to reorder them, either in the bar or in the popup's list
• Remove a favorite via the small × that appears on hover
• Syncs across your Chrome installs via chrome.storage.sync

Installing (unpacked, for development)

1. Clone this repo.
2. Go to chrome://extensions.
3. Enable Developer mode (top right).
4. Click Load unpacked and select this folder.
5. Visit any github.com page — the bar should appear under the header.

There's no build step; it's plain HTML/CSS/JS, so any edits take effect after clicking the reload icon on the extension's card and then refreshing any already-open github.com tabs (existing content scripts are invalidated when the extension reloads).

How it works

• manifest.json — Manifest V3 config. Content script runs on https://github.com/*; the popup is the toolbar-icon UI.
• content.js — injects the favorites bar. Anchors to header[role="banner"] (present on every GitHub page) rather than any page-specific navigation, so it doesn't interfere with GitHub's own layout/overflow scripts and shows up consistently everywhere.
• content.css — styling for the bar and its chips.
• popup.html / popup.js / popup.css — the toolbar popup for managing favorites from anywhere, including current-repo detection.
• icons/ — extension icons.

Favorites are stored as a favorites array ({ owner, repo } objects) in chrome.storage.sync. Both the content script and popup re-check storage before mutating it (rather than trusting a possibly-stale in-memory copy), so concurrent edits from different tabs or the popup don't produce duplicates.

Notes

• This is an unofficial, community project — not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub.
• Not published to the Chrome Web Store; load it as an unpacked extension as described above.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.