Homework Browser

Homework Brwoser (formerly Rikser) is an electron based browser made to help students with their homework. It is primarily designed for Finnish market (note MAOL reference book), but can be used by anyone with little bit of tweaking.

Features

• Multiple tabs
• Privacy first design
• Reference book integration
• Constant check and replacement across websites
• LaTeX to Ascii Parser

FAQ

What is this based on ?

Homework Browser is based on Chromium trough electron. It uses svelte as the main frontend library.

Is Homework Browser being updated ?

Homework Browser will most probably not be updated regularly and the updates will mainly reflect the Finnish educational landscape needs.

Does Homework browser use 3rd party such as google trackers ?

No Homework browser is designed as privacy #1 browser and thus blocks most of these 3rd party trackers, it does not come installed with any analytics or tracking settings and is made to be used mainly for light research and homework.

Installation

You can install Homework Browser for Mac and Windows by going to this projects releases

Or alternatively build from source by

  git clone https://github.com/Swifterhtmler/Rikser.git
  cd Rikser
  npm install

and then...

Deployment

To deploy run

  npm run build

or by choosing your system

  npm run build:[win; mac; linux]

Optimizations

To optimitize the browser for your needs you can change the url of the reference book in the App.svelte by changing the CreateMAOLTab() function .createTab methods location.

Tech Stack

Client: Svelte, Ts, Js, Css, HTML, Electron, Electron-builder

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