What is short_name ?

[subins2000]

In manifest/index.js, there's the field short_name. What is it for ?

[abhijithvijayan]

It is used when the name is too long

Like when you hover or the icon or something.

You can checkout the documentation here

Also, please do note that, the underlying package wext-manifest requires a js file to generate the manifest files(for now)

This will be changed in the upcoming version for which I am planning to be release as a webpack loader (under wext-manifest-loader) which resolves the issue of keeping the manifest.json/index.js. Instead it can be kept as manifest.json with browser specific contents which will be autobundled correctly.

[abhijithvijayan]

The migration will be as simple as

• removing and installing new loader package
• move contents to manifest.json
• deleting js file
• replacing entry in webpack config

[abhijithvijayan]

@subins2000 I will be closing this for now.

Feel free to reopen if any such questions are raised.

Thanks.

[subins2000]

Got it. Thank you for the quick reply !