SideHN

The web, with a side of HackerNews. Shows a sidebar with HN comments if the link was opened from HN

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         SideHN
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  The web, with a side of HackerNews. Shows a sidebar with HN comments if the link was opened from HN
// @author       Alin Panaitiu
// @match        https://*/*
// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=news.ycombinator.com
// @grant        none
// @license      MIT
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    window.addHNComments = (id) => {
        // Create the iframe element
        const iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
        const bodyStyle = getComputedStyle(document.body);

        // Set the source of the iframe to the Hacker News comments page for the given URL
        iframe.src = `https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=${id}`;

        // Set the width and height of the iframe
        iframe.style.width = "30%";
        iframe.style.minWidth = "30%";
        iframe.style.maxWidth = "30%";
        iframe.style.height = "100%";
        iframe.style.position = "fixed";
        iframe.style.top = "0";
        iframe.style.right = "-30%";
        iframe.style.zIndex = 1000

        // Create the close button (a right chevron placed on the left side of the iframe)
        const closeButton = document.createElement("button");
        closeButton.innerHTML = window.innerWidth >= 1024 ? "▸" : "◂";
        closeButton.style.position = "fixed";
        closeButton.style.top = "calc(50% - 3rem)";
        closeButton.style.right = "0";
        closeButton.style.height = "3rem";
        closeButton.style.width = "1.5rem";
        closeButton.style.backgroundColor = "hsla(21, 84%, 55%, 1.00)";
        closeButton.style.fontSize = "1.5rem";
        closeButton.style.cursor = "pointer";
        closeButton.style.outline = "none";
        closeButton.style.color = "black";
        closeButton.style.borderRadius = "0.5rem 0 0 0.5rem";
        closeButton.style.zIndex = 1001;

        window.hnIframeHiddenManually = false;
        closeButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
            if (window.hnIframeShown) {
                window.hnIframeHiddenManually = true;
                window.hideHNComments();
            } else {
                window.hnIframeHiddenManually = false;
                window.showHNComments();
            }
        });

        window.hideHNComments = () => {
            iframe.style.right = "-30%";
            closeButton.innerHTML = "◂";
            document.getElementById("hn-iframe-placeholder").style.display = "none";

            const bodyContainer = document.getElementById("hn-body-container")
            bodyContainer.style.maxWidth = "100%";
            bodyContainer.style.width = "100%";
            bodyContainer.style.flex = 1;
            window.hnIframeShown = false;
        }

        window.showHNComments = () => {
            iframe.style.right = "0";
            closeButton.innerHTML = "▸";
            document.getElementById("hn-iframe-placeholder").style.display = "block";

            const bodyContainer = document.getElementById("hn-body-container")
            bodyContainer.style.maxWidth = "70%";
            bodyContainer.style.width = `calc(70% - ${bodyStyle.padding || 0})`;
            bodyContainer.style.flex = 0.7;
            window.hnIframeShown = true;
        }

        // Create a flex container to hold the website contents and the iframe
        const flexContainer = document.createElement("div");
        flexContainer.id = "hn-flex-container";
        flexContainer.style.display = "flex";

        // Container for holding the body contents
        const bodyContainer = document.createElement("div");
        bodyContainer.id = "hn-body-container";
        bodyContainer.style.flexGrow = 0.7;
        bodyContainer.style.width = `calc(70% - ${bodyStyle.padding || 0})`;
        bodyContainer.style.minWidth = "50%";
        bodyContainer.style.maxWidth = "70%";
        bodyContainer.style.margin = bodyStyle.margin;
        bodyContainer.style.padding = bodyStyle.padding;
        bodyContainer.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML;
        flexContainer.innerHTML = bodyContainer.outerHTML;

        // Create a placeholder for the iframe that will be 30% of the flex container
        // to push body contents to the left of the sidebar
        const iframePlaceholder = document.createElement("div");
        iframePlaceholder.id = "hn-iframe-placeholder";
        iframePlaceholder.style.width = "30%";
        iframePlaceholder.style.minWidth = "30%";
        iframePlaceholder.style.maxWidth = "30%";
        iframePlaceholder.style.height = "100vh";
        iframePlaceholder.style.flex = 0.3;
        iframePlaceholder.style.backgroundColor = "hsla(60, 25%, 95%, 1.00)";

        flexContainer.appendChild(iframePlaceholder);
        document.body.innerHTML = flexContainer.outerHTML;
        document.body.appendChild(iframe);
        document.body.appendChild(closeButton);
        document.body.style.margin = 0;
        document.body.style.padding = 0;
        document.body.style.width = "100%"
        document.body.style.minWidth = "100%"
        document.body.style.maxWidth = "100%"

        // Show/hide the iframe based on the width of the page
        function toggleIframe() {
            if (window.innerWidth < 1024) {
                window.hideHNComments();
            } else if (!window.hnIframeHiddenManually) {
                window.showHNComments();
            }
        }

        // Call toggleIframe on page load and on window resize
        window.addEventListener("load", toggleIframe);
        window.addEventListener("resize", toggleIframe);
        toggleIframe();
    }

    if (location.hostname == "news.ycombinator.com") {
        // if we're on HN, add the item ID to the URL as a hash fragment
        window.hnObserver = new MutationObserver(() => {
            const hnItems = document.querySelectorAll(".hn-item");
            hnItems.forEach((item) => {
                const link = item.querySelector("a.hn-item-title");
                if (!link.href.includes("news.ycombinator.com")) {
                    link.href = link.href.replace(/#hnid=\d+/, "") + `#hnid=${item.id}`;
                }
            });

        });

        window.hnObserver.observe(document.body, {
            childList: true,
            subtree: true,
        });
    } else {
        // otherwise, check if we got here from HN and add the comments sidebar
        const hnidMatch = location.hash.match(/hnid=(\d+)/);
        if (hnidMatch) {
            window.addHNComments(hnidMatch[1]);
        }
    }
})();