chrome extension boilerplate simple

Installation 🛠️

prerequisites:

• Developer Mode: Ensure developer mode is enabled in Chrome settings

1. Clone this repo git clone ...

2. Go to chrome://extensions/ in Chrome

3. Click on Load unpacked extension

🗒️ note: there's no build process here, so we can just select the whole directory

how to pack and publish this extension

confusingly, Pack'ing the extension is not what's required for publishing. We actually have to zip the extension, which we can do as follows:

Note that: we're not zipping the whole directory - but only the contents, since the zip file will be unpacked by the browser

Now that we have this .zip file containing our project, we can

1. Navigate to Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard https://chrome.google.com/webstore/devconsole/
2. Choose New Item, and upload our .zip file.

prepping for publishing to the app store

• Update the manifest.json file with the correct information