Show HN: Chrome Extension Starter templates and ebook

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Post by rfitz » Mon, Aug 03, 2020, 11:47 PM UTC

Show HN: Chrome Extension Starter templates and ebook
chromeextensionkit.com

Re: Show HN: Chrome Extension Starter templates and ebook

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Post by rfitz » Mon, Aug 03, 2020, 11:51 PM UTC

Hey HN, ChromeExtensionKit is a side project of mine that includes a bunch of different starter templates for basic (HTML/CSS/JS) and React-based Chrome extensions (with setup and publish scripts) as well as some fully functional example extensions. I originally built the starter templates as I found myself setting up and configuring every extension project roughly the same way and wanted to speed that process up in the future.

I also wrote a short ebook on outlining how to use the kit as well as a lot of what I learned growing a number of extensions to over 3,000 users each.

If anyone has any questions, I would love to answer them!

Re: Show HN: Chrome Extension Starter templates and ebook

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Post by khuknows » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 5:25 AM UTC

rfitz wrote: post #2

Hey HN, ChromeExtensionKit is a side project of mine that includes a bunch of different starter templates for basic (HTML/CSS/JS) and React-based Chrome extensions (with setup and publish scripts) as well as some fully functional example extensions. I originally built the starter templates as I found myself setting up and configuring every extension project roughly the same way and wanted to speed that process up in…

Nice work - just purchased. I’ve built a couple of simple extensions before and it always takes me an hour or so to remember how it all works. Hopefully this speeds that process up a bit. Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Chrome Extension Starter templates and ebook

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Post by rfitz » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 1:46 PM UTC

khuknows wrote: post #3

rfitz wrote: post #2

Hey HN, ChromeExtensionKit is a side project of mine that includes a bunch of different starter templates for basic (HTML/CSS/JS) and React-based Chrome extensions (with setup and publish scripts) as well as some fully functional example extensions. I originally built the starter templates as I found myself setting up and configuring every extension project roughly the same way and wanted to speed that process up in…

Nice work - just purchased. I’ve built a couple of simple extensions before and it always takes me an hour or so to remember how it all works. Hopefully this speeds that process up a bit. Good luck!

Awesome, thank you! That's exactly the reason I originally built them, I found myself going back to old projects constantly or looking up how to define the manifest, use the Chrome APIs, or integrate React into an extension again. If you have any suggestions for additional starting points, I'd love to hear them!