What?

Reloads all unpacked extensions on receive socket event file.change from http://localhost:8890

How

Extension tries to connect to socket.io server on http://localhost:8890 and waits for file.change event to flow in. When an event is incoming, the extension get all extensions in development mode and reload them one by one.

An example on how to send file change events to the extension can be found here: robin-drexler/chrome-extension-auto-reload-watcher or here:

(function(console) {
    'use strict'; 
    var gulp = require('gulp');;
    var watch = require('gulp-watch');
    var io = require('socket.io');

    gulp.task('chrome-watch', function () {
        var WEB_SOCKET_PORT = 8890;

        io = io.listen(WEB_SOCKET_PORT);

        watch('**/*.*', function(file) {
            console.log('change detected', file.relative);
            io.emit('file.change', {});
        });
    });
})(global.console);

Installation

Just download from the webstore

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dev-extension-auto-reload/jfjjbihghhhohnahailbplkciefnaffg

Development

npm install
npm run build

Author

Originally idea forked from https://github.com/robin-drexler/chrome-extension-auto-reload and reworked by me :)