🚀 web-extension-starter

Web Extension starter to build "Write Once Run on Any Browser" extension

🙋‍♂️ Maintained by @BasixKOR

Features

• Cross Browser Support (Web-Extensions API) with mozilla's polyfill
• Browser Taylored Manifest generation thanks to webextension-toolbox
• Automatic build on code changes.
• Auto packs browser specific build files
• ES6 modules support
• SASS styling
• TypeScript by default
• Smart reload

Browser Support

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Demo

• abhijithvijayan/kutt-extension

🚀 Quick Start

• yarn install to install dependencies.
• yarn run dev:chrome to start the development server for chrome extension.
• yarn run dev:firefox to start the development server for firefox addon.
• yarn run dev:opera to start the development server for opera extension.
• yarn run build:chrome to build chrome extension.
• yarn run build:firefox to build firefox addon.
• yarn run build:opera to build opera extension.
• yarn run build builds and packs extensions all at once to extension/ directory.

Usage

Update src/manifest/index.js file with browser vendor prefixed manifest keys

{
  "__chrome__name": "SuperChrome",
  "__firefox__name": "SuperFox",
  "__edge__name": "SuperEdge",
  "__opera__name": "SuperOpera"
}

if the vendor is chrome this compiles to:

{
  "name": "SuperChrome",
}

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Add keys to multiple vendors by seperating them with | in the prefix

{
  __chrome|opera__name: "SuperBlink"
}

if the vendor is chrome or opera, this compiles to:

{
  "name": "SuperBlink"
}

You can check the corresponding plugin's README for more details!

Development

• yarn install to install dependencies.

• To watch file changes in developement

  • Chrome
    • yarn run dev:chrome
  • Firefox
    • yarn run dev:firefox
  • Opera
    • yarn run dev:opera

  (Reload Extension Manually in the browser)

• Load extension in browser

  • Chrome

    • Go to the browser address bar and type chrome://extensions
    • Check the Developer Mode button to enable it.
    • Click on the Load Unpacked Extension… button.
    • Select your extension’s extracted directory.

  • Firefox

    • Load the Add-on via about:debugging as temporary Add-on.
    • Choose the manifest.json file in the extracted directory

  • Opera

    • Load the extension via opera:extensions
    • Check the Developer Mode and load as unpacked from extension’s extracted directory.

Production

• yarn run build builds the extension for all the browsers to extension/BROWSER directory respectively.

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Licence

Code released under the MIT License.