FirefoxCSS-Store

FirefoxCSS-Store is a static community catalog for discovering and sharing Firefox userChrome.css themes. It does not scrape, crawl, or auto-discover themes. Every public entry points back to the original repository submitted by an author, maintainer, or community user.

What This Project Publishes

• A searchable theme gallery built with Astro and TypeScript.
• One public detail page per published theme.
• A generated /themes.json endpoint for lightweight integrations.
• A GitHub Issue Form that collects theme submissions and opens candidate PRs through automation.
• Validation scripts that keep catalog entries structured, reviewable, and safe to publish.

Local Development

npm ci
npm test
npm run build
npm run dev

Theme Data

Theme entries live in src/content/themes/*.json. New submissions should start with:

• status: "candidate"
• submitterRole: "author", "user", or "maintainer"
• the original repository URL
• at least one screenshot in public/assets/img/themes/
• normalized lowercase tags

Only entries with status: "published" are rendered in the public catalog and exported through /themes.json.

Entries with status: "archived" are rendered in /archive/ and remain available for historical discovery, but the UI marks them as unsupported. Archived entries must include retirement metadata with a reason, check date, and reviewer-facing details.

Theme Submissions

Community submissions use the Submit a theme GitHub Issue Form. When a complete issue is opened or edited, .github/workflows/create-theme-submission.yml runs scripts/create-theme-submission-from-issue.mjs to:

• create a candidate JSON entry in src/content/themes/;
• download attached or linked screenshots into public/assets/img/themes/;
• populate basic repository metadata such as stars, last update date, and owner avatar;
• validate the catalog with npm test and npm run build;
• open or update a review pull request from a submissions/theme-<issue-number> branch.

The generated entry remains status: "candidate" until a maintainer approves the submission PR. Approval runs .github/workflows/publish-approved-theme-submission.yml, which switches the entry to status: "published" and assigns the next available catalogIndex. Maintainers still merge the PR explicitly after checks pass. Merged submission PRs close their source issue automatically.

Metadata Refresh

npm run refresh:themes updates only basic repository metadata for repositories already present in the catalog:

• stars
• last update date
• owner avatar
• accessibility status

It does not search for new themes, crawl topics, or change editorial fields such as title, description, tags, screenshots, or publication status.

The monthly Refresh Theme Stats workflow runs the same refresh command and opens a review PR when stars, update dates, avatars, or accessibility values change.

Repository Audit

npm run audit:theme-repos checks the repositories already listed in the catalog. It does not discover new repositories.

The monthly GitHub Actions workflow runs this audit and opens a review PR when it finds changes:

• repositories that still exist but are archived are moved to status: "archived" and shown in /archive/;
• repositories that return deleted, unavailable, or gone are removed from the catalog in the PR;
• repositories that cannot be checked due to transient API errors are listed in the PR report for manual follow-up.

Deployment

GitHub Actions validates PRs with:

npm test
npm run build

The production workflow builds Astro into dist/ and deploys that artifact to GitHub Pages. Generated site files are not committed back to the repository.

Deployment Target

This branch is configured to run from the original organization GitHub Pages domain:

• astro.config.mjs
  • site: "https://firefoxcss-store.github.io"
  • no base, because the site is served from the domain root
• src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro
  • GitHub navigation link points to https://github.com/FirefoxCSS-Store/FirefoxCSS-Store.github.io
• src/pages/submit.astro
  • submission issue link points to https://github.com/FirefoxCSS-Store/FirefoxCSS-Store.github.io