chrome-extension-boilerplate

A chrome extension boilerplate by Webpack5 + TS + React

Features

• Support manifest v2 and v3
• Support HMR
• Support react fast refresh
• Support auto reload when content scripts change
• Support dynamic generate content scripts
• Support use vscode to debug content scripts, popup page, options page and background
• Out of the box Eslint and Prettier configurations
• Intelligence when you change manifest config (only v2)

Major features is by chrome-extension-reloader-webpack-plugin, you can use this plugin to create own your project

Demo Video

chrome-extension-boilerplate.mp4

Usage

# install dependcy
npm i
# development
npm run dev
# build
npm run build
# analy build assets
npm run analy

Manifest Version

change manifest version in package.json, default version is 2

{
  ...
  "chromeExtension": {
    "mainifest-version": 2 or 3
  },
  ...
}

Content Scripts

All content script in contents directory will dynamic generate（There can only be two levels of nesting）

contents/test.ts 🆗

contents/test/index.ts 🆗

contents/test/a.ts 🚫

contents/test/t/index.ts 🚫

React Refresh

This project is using custom plugin https://github.com/njzydark/mini-react-refresh-webpack-plugin