Google Chrome Extension

Nowadays we pretty much spent 60% percent of our time on the internet and if you are a JavaScript developer you spent almost 70% of that time on our’s favorite web browser Google Chrome. On Google Chrome we use generally two-three extensions which make our daily work easy like Screen Recorder, Antivirus extension, Ads Blocker, etc., but have you ever wondered if we can also make our own Google Chrome Extension. Today I am here to share the journey we need to take to reach our extension. So let’s don’t just go through these steps let's do it together.

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Getting Started

Create the manifest

In every extension, there is a manifest.json file that contains important information about the extension like name, version, icons, etc.

{
 "name": "My Extension: Let's create a Extension", // Extension name shown on Chrome Market Place
 "version": "0.0.8", // Build version
 "manifest_version": 3, // An integer specifying the version of the manifest file format your package requires
 "short_name": "My Extension", // Short name of Extension not required if not provided 'name' will be used (maximum of 12 characters recommended)
 "description": "A plain text description", // Plain text that describes extension (no HTML or other formatting; no more than 132 characters)
 "homepage_url": "https://path.to.myHome", // Home page…