A starter repo for building Chrome v3 manifest extensions using Typescript and React
TypeScript, React, Rollup, and Chrome v3 Manifest Starter
This is a bare bones starter for building React/Typescript extensions for Chrome using manifest_version: 3.
Under the hood, this repo is built leaning pretty heavily on the infrastructure from Extend Chrome. I would say the primary difference here is the starter integrates some foundational code and manifest configuration for v3 which I couldn’t find in the boilerplate examples they offer.
Development
For development with automatic reloading:
yarn start
Open the Extensions Dashboard, enable “Developer mode”,
click “Load unpacked”, and choose the dist folder.
When you make changes in src the background script and any content script will
reload automatically.
Production
When it’s time to publish your Chrome extension, make a production build to
submit to the Chrome Web Store. This boilerplate will use the version in
package.json, unless you add a version to src/manifest.json.
Make sure you have updated the name and version of your extension in
package.json.
Run the following line:
yarn build
This will create a ZIP file with your package name and version in the releases
folder.