Chrome Extension Hot Reloader

Watches for file changes in your extension's directory. When a change is detected, it reloads the extension and refreshes the active tab (to re-trigger the updated scripts).

Here's a blog post explaining it (thanks to KingOfNothing for the translation).

Features

• Works by checking timestamps of files
• Supports nested directories
• Automatically disables itself in production

How to use

1. Drop hot-reload.js to your extension's directory.

2. Put the following into your manifest.json file:

    "background": { "scripts": ["hot-reload.js"] }

Also, you can simply clone this repository and use it as a boilerplate for your extension.

TODO

• Make it importable from the NPM module, as it's suggested here. I think a require would work now, as it executes the script, but not sure about the import... May need to tweak code a little bit.