Drum roll…..!!! We released Lightbeam yesterday and I am super proud of my Outreachy work. You can find Lightbeam at the Mozilla add-ons page.

What is new?

Below are the highlights of Lightbeam 2.0.1:

• Re-written from scratch to adapt to the browser web-extension API
• Asynchronous data capture and storage
• IndexedDB for data storage (data is stored only locally and not shared)
• Performance first
• The graph visualisation is canvas based, thereby improving the performance
• ES6 features – await/async, proxy objects, arrow functions, template strings
• Responsive UI with CSS grid and flexbox
• D3.js for the force layout of the graph visualisation including drag, zoom and pan
• Dexie.js for IndexedDB

What’s next?

Outreachy has been the best gift I have gifted myself. I highly recommend this program.

• I have been selected into the Mozilla Open Leader program and I am continuing to work with Lightbeam.
• I am also working on to create a visualisation view in WebVR using A-Frame for Lightbeam which is also a gallery session at MozFest 2017, London.

Stay tuned for more updates! Do give Lightbeam a try ^_^