Page reloads counter

The main idea of creating this extension for Chrome is to count how many times localhost gets reloaded during development.

It uses window.perfromance API to collect data not only for localhost but for all domains which gets reloaded while surfing Internet.

Thanks

This project was created with help of chrome-extension-webpack-boilerplate

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Samuel Simões ~ @samuelsimoes ~ Blog

Developing

I'll assume that you already read the Webpack docs and the Chrome Extension docs.

1. Check if your Node.js version is >= 6.
2. Clone the repository.
3. Install yarn.
4. Run yarn.
5. Change the package's name and description on package.json.
6. Change the name of your extension on src/manifest.json.
7. Run npm run start
8. Load your extension on Chrome following:
   1. Access chrome://extensions/
   2. Check Developer mode
   3. Click on Load unpacked extension
   4. Select the build folder.
9. Have fun.

You can run the dev mode on other port if you want. Just specify the env var port like this:

$ PORT=6002 yarn run start

Packing

After the development of your extension run the command

$ NODE_ENV=production npm run build

Now, the content of build folder will be the extension ready to be submitted to the Chrome Web Store. Just take a look at the official guide to more infos about publishing.

Secrets

If you are developing an extension that talks with some API you probably are using different keys for testing and production. Is a good practice you not commit your secret keys and expose to anyone that have access to the repository.

To this task this boilerplate import the file ./secrets.<THE-NODE_ENV>.js on your modules through the module named as secrets, so you can do things like this:

./secrets.development.js

export default { key: "123" };

./src/popup.js

import secrets from "secrets";
ApiCall({ key: secrets.key });

👉 The files with name secrets.*.js already are ignored on the repository.