Tailwind3/Alpine3 Web Extension Boilerplate

This is a starting place for building a Web Extension with Tailwindcss & Alpinejs

Basic Popup with Tailwind	Alpine @click Works!	Basic Options

Installation

Setup local project

• git clone git@github.com:thomasjohnkane/tailwind-alpine-chrome-extension.git
• npm i && npm run dev

Install on Chrome

• Navigate to chrome://extensions in Chrome;
• Enable the Developer mode
• Click on Load unpacked extension (upper left nav)
• Upload the entire extension folder

Why use this?

• It automatically puts tailwindcss.com into your project
• It automatically puts alpinejs into your project
• Hot reload (watches files and updates chrome)
• Cross browser support (Chrome & Firefox, Safari/Edge TBD)
• Provides basic popup.html & options.html (embeded in settings page)

Goals of project

• Create a starting point for building web extensions
• Use alpine.js and tailwind.css
• Be cross browser (chrome, firefox, safari, edge?)
• Full DX path integrated
  • Readme to set it up
  • Watch script
  • Env based config files
  • Hot reloading (https://github.com/rubenspgcavalcante/webpack-extension-reloader)
  • deploy script (create zip for submitting to store)
  • Deploy instructions (per browser)

Roadmap

• Create folder structure
• Add webpack
• Make hello world work in dev
• Add Tailwindcss
• Add Alpinejs
• Add package.json build scripts
• Add hot reloading
• Add basic options.html page
• Handle sub views and routes for popup
• Add basic example of content.js
• Add basic example of background.js
• Update readme with instructions, etc
• Push to github
• Add build-zip script for deployment
• Tag release v1.0

Credit

• Thanks to Caleb Porzio for Alpinejs
• Thanks to Adam Watham for Tailwindcss
• Thanks to @rubenspgcavalcante for Webpack Extension Reload plugin
• Thanks to @Kocal, @EmailThis, and @williankeller for inspiration

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email instead of using the issue tracker.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/thomasjohnkane/tailwind-alpine-chrome-extension/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request