How to Create a Chrome Extension to Edit Websites

Have you ever wondered how to create a Chrome extension? In this tutorial, you’ll learn that it’s easier than you think. 😜

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Context

Have you ever been on a website where you would like to have a different layout? Or that some functionalities were just missing and could simply be implemented?

You can choose to go to another similar site, but sometimes, there may be no suitable alternative and you are stuck with it… 😕

Imagine you were a developer for the company that maintains that website, you could simply improve it to suit your needs… Unfortunately, you are probably not an employee or you may be not allowed to change it… 🙁

Fortunately, there is something you can do and it’s simpler than you think: you could create a Google Chrome extension. Continue to read this tutorial to learn how to. 🤓

What will you learn?

In this tutorial, in about five minutes, you should learn:

1. How to create a minimal Chrome extension
2. How to load it into your browser
3. How your extension can modify the HTML of a website