Chrome Extension Boilerplate with
React + Vite + TypeScript

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Important

Share storage state between every page

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Table of Contents

• Intro
• Features
• Structure
  • ChromeExtension
  • Packages
  • Pages
• Install
  • Procedures
    • Chrome
    • Firefox
• Reference
• Star History
• Contributors

Intro

This boilerplate is made for creating chrome extensions using React and Typescript.

The focus was on improving the build speed and development experience with Vite(Rollup) & Turborepo.

Features

• React18
• TypeScript
• Tailwindcss
• Vite
• Turborepo
• Chrome Extension Manifest Version 3
• Custom HMR(Hot Module Rebuild) Plugin

Install

Procedures:

1. Clone this repository.
2. Change extensionDescription and extensionName in messages.json file.
3. Install pnpm globally: npm install -g pnpm (check your node version >= 18.12.0)
4. Run pnpm install

And next, depending on the needs:

For Chrome:

1. Run:
   • Dev: pnpm dev (it's run parallel with pnpm dev-server automatically)
     • When you run with Windows, you should run as administrator. (Issue#456)
   • Prod: pnpm build
2. Open in browser - chrome://extensions
3. Check - Developer mode
4. Find and Click - Load unpacked extension
5. Select - dist folder at root

For Firefox:

1. Run:
   • Dev: pnpm dev:firefox (it's run parallel with pnpm dev-server automatically)
   • Prod: pnpm build:firefox
2. Open in browser - about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
3. Find and Click - Load Temporary Add-on...
4. Select - manifest.json from dist folder at root

Remember in firefox you add plugin in temporary mode, that's mean it's disappear after close browser, you must do it again, on next launch.

Structure

ChromeExtension

Main app with background script, manifest

• manifest.js - manifest for chrome extension
• lib/background - background script for chrome extension (background.service_worker in manifest.json)
• public/content.css - content css for user's page injection

Packages

Some shared packages

• dev-utils - utils for chrome extension development (manifest-parser, logger)
• hmr - custom HMR plugin for vite, injection script for reload/refresh, hmr dev-server
• shared - shared code for entire project. (types, constants, custom hooks, components, etc.)
• tsconfig - shared tsconfig for entire project.

Pages

• content - content script for chrome extension (content_scripts in manifest.json)
• content-ui - content script for render UI in user's page (content_scripts in manifest.json)

Reference

• Vite Plugin
• ChromeExtension
• Rollup
• Turborepo
• Rollup-plugin-chrome-extension