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Revision 911045 of MDN-related add-ons and plug-ins

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  • Revision title: MDN-related projects
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One of the great things about MDN is our amazing community. Our volunteers (and staff) are clever and creative people, and over time have launched many fun and/or useful projects to create tools, add-ons, and utilities that make it easier to use MDN or to contribute to its content.

Here you'll find links to a number of these projects. Many of them are looking for more help getting them finished, too, so if you're a coder looking to help out, you may find an opportunity here!

MDN Content Kits
MDN Content Kits are subject-based collections of technical resources to help you host a local developer meetup or give a technical presentation at an event, conference, or workshop. Each kit is based off of a core Content Kit template you can find on Github.
MDN comment service
This is an ongoing project to build a commenting and annotation service for MDN for use primarily by contributing writers. It consists of a Firefox extension that provides annotation and commenting functions and a Node.js-based back-end server program, which needs to run on a server somewhere. While the back-end is currently available on a Heroku instance, the plan is to pull that into Mozilla's AWS limitations.
MDN doc tests add-on
A Firefox add-on that creates a sidebar that appears while you're editing on MDN, providing some tools for testing and validating your content. It's a work in progress, and more tests are welcome!
MDN Interface Documentation Generator
This Firefox add-on helps to generate properly-formatted skeletons of references for XPCOM interfaces. It hasn't been updated in a while, so it doesn't always get the version compatibility information right, but it's still helpful in many cases. With some updating, it could become invaluable again.
MDN sample server back-end
A project that includes both server components for any MDN sample code that requires one (for example: hosting a service for WebSocket samples to connect to.
Save with comment hotkey addon
A Firefox add-on that lets you instantly scroll to and focus the Revision Comment field in the MDN editor; this makes it easier to add these helpful tidbits of information to your edits.
Sublime Text MDN search plug-in
A Sublime Text plug-in that lets you quickly search MDN to get docs while you code.

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<p>One of the great things about MDN is our amazing community. Our volunteers (and staff) are clever and creative people, and over time have launched many fun and/or useful projects to create tools, add-ons, and utilities that make it easier to use MDN or to contribute to its content.</p>

<p>Here you'll find links to a number of these projects. Many of them are looking for more help getting them finished, too, so if you're a coder looking to help out, you may find an opportunity here!</p>

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 <dt><a href="/en-US/Learn/Content_Kits">MDN Content Kits</a></dt>
 <dd>MDN Content Kits are subject-based collections of technical resources to help you host a local developer meetup or give a technical presentation at an event, conference, or workshop. Each kit is based off of a core <a href="https://github.com/mdn/content-kit-template">Content Kit template</a> you can find on Github.</dd>
 <dt><a href="https://github.com/soapdog/firefox-addon-mdn-comments">MDN comment service</a></dt>
 <dd>This is an ongoing project to build a commenting and annotation service for MDN for use primarily by contributing writers. It consists of a <a href="https://github.com/soapdog/firefox-addon-mdn-comments">Firefox extension</a> that provides annotation and commenting functions and a <a href="https://nodejs.org">Node.js</a>-based <a href="https://github.com/soapdog/firefox-addon-mdn-comments">back-end server program</a>, which needs to run on a server somewhere. While the back-end is currently available on a <a href="https://www.heroku.com/">Heroku</a> instance, the plan is to pull that into Mozilla's <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/">AWS</a> limitations.</dd>
 <dt><a href="https://github.com/Elchi3/mdn-doc-tests">MDN doc tests add-on</a></dt>
 <dd>A Firefox add-on that creates a sidebar that appears while you're editing on MDN, providing some tools for testing and validating your content. It's a work in progress, and more tests are welcome!</dd>
 <dt><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mdn-interface-documentation-ge/">MDN Interface Documentation Generator</a></dt>
 <dd>This Firefox add-on helps to generate properly-formatted skeletons of references for XPCOM interfaces. It hasn't been updated in a while, so it doesn't always get the version compatibility information right, but it's still helpful in many cases. With some updating, it could become invaluable again.</dd>
 <dt><a href="https://github.com/mdn/samples-server">MDN sample server back-end</a></dt>
 <dd>A project that includes both server components for any MDN sample code that requires one (for example: hosting a service for WebSocket samples to connect to.</dd>
 <dt><a href="https://github.com/a2sheppy/mdn-save-with-comment">Save with comment hotkey addon</a></dt>
 <dd>A Firefox add-on that lets you instantly scroll to and focus the Revision Comment field in the MDN editor; this makes it easier to add these helpful tidbits of information to your edits.</dd>
 <dt><a href="https://github.com/Elchi3/sublime-mdn">Sublime Text MDN search plug-in</a></dt>
 <dd>A Sublime Text plug-in that lets you quickly search MDN to get docs while you code.</dd>
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