Chris Nwamba is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS focusing on AWS Amplify. He is also a teacher with years of experience building products and communities.
In this tutorial, we have built a Chrome extension to download gists from GitHub Gist. We explored the different parts that make up a Chrome extension and also learned how to harness the power of Vue.js and JavaScript to build Chrome extensions.
With the help of Vue, we’ve built out an application the tracks a user’s location, receiving real-time location updates using Socket.io and Google Maps to visualize the user’s location on the map. Using geofences, we’ll be able to tell when an active guest is leaving the virtual boundary we set up.