Demo proposal: Automated development pipeline for Chrome extensions

[andreaskth]

Video demo: Automated development pipeline for Chrome extensions

Members

Andreas Kärrby (karrby@kth.se)
Github: andreaskth

Henrik Kultala (kultala@kth.se)
Github: hengque

Proposal

We would like to create a video demonstrating setup of an automated CI/CD development pipeline for developing and publishing Chrome extensions ("plugins") to the 'extensions' part of Chrome Web Store (and to registered testers of the extension).

A rough list of things we plan to show (level of detail will be adapted to fit given video length):

• Brief introduction of how browser extensions work in Chrome (covering information such as that available here)
• Show a basic template extension (a "Hello world" of sorts) whose code we will modify (and which will be the 'thing-to-deploy' in the pipeline)
• Show the actual steps in the pipeline (running automated tests, merging if they pass, deploying automatically), how they work and are setup
• Finally, showcase the pipeline working by changing some code and have it be automatically deployed to the web store and automatically updated in browsers of trusted testers
• Conclusions/take-home message

Sources

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/overview/
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/using_webstore_api/#trustedtesters

[SophieHYe]

Thanks for the demo proposal. Your proposal is super interesting. Look forward to your work. I am merging your PR now.

[LaraRos]

I plan to do feedback on this demo, see #1096