3 Steps to Publishing an Angular-based Chrome Extension
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Embarking on the next leg of our development expedition, let’s catapult our creation onto the global stage by publishing it on the Chrome Web Store.
Now, for the crucial initiation, I’d typically guide you to the Chrome for Developers docs for comprehensive insights. However, our first stride demands the creation of a Developer Account, meticulously detailed here. Bear in mind, this is the solitary step with a price tag — a mere $5.00 US at the time of writing.
Once you’ve secured your account, a gateway opens to a realm where you can log in and gracefully unveil your extension. Yet, uploading is but a fragment of the elaborate dance needed to seamlessly debut your app to the world. Let the journey to Chrome Web Store stardom commence! 💫🚀
Step 1 — Upload the source-code
Once logged in to your Chrome Web Store account you can see in the Developer Dashboard the option to create New Item:
Click on the New item button and you’ll be able to upload the zip file of your already built app (for information on how to build your Angular app check my previous post on how to implement the Opportunity Cost App as a Chrome Extension):
Step 2 — Fill In the Build Form
Once the zip file is uploaded you will find the following sections awaiting to be filled in:
- Status
- Package
- Store Listing
- Privacy
- Distribution
2.1 — Status
Status Section does not require anything from us. It mere shows the status of the Item we are preparing for a sucessful publishing.
2.2 — Package
The Package section displays exactly what we have put in the manifest.json as part of our built process.
2.3 — Store Listing
The Store listing section is the one of the following three that need actual work from us.
We need to fill in the Description, Category and Language.
We upload all the required images in the Graphic assets subsection, according to the strict requirements in terms of number of images as well as exact size of each image, in pixels.
Finally, fill in the Additional fields, Metrics and Support info subsections, as applicable:
2.4 — Privacy
In the Privacy section, we are mainly prompted to complete certain fields, by default, such as Single Purpose subsection, Permission justification, but keep in mind that certain fields will appear depending on the extra permissions we are requesting in the manifest.json file, under "permissions":[] array.
In our case, the array of permissions contains no elements since we do not use, nor store any browser-related memory, apart from the active session storage memory allocated to the Chrome Extension Application itself, as a temporary storage for the time it is opened only.
Data usage subsection needs to be filled in according to the real usage, as well:
Privacy Policy subsection would need to be filled in, but since in our case there is no data collection, we can ignore it as well:
2.5 — Distribution
The Distribution section, which includes the Payments, Visibility, and Distribution subsection, may be included according to our particular application we are about to publish. In our specific case, there is charge and there are no restrictions in terms of countries that can install it:
Step 3 — Submit It for Review
Finally, you are ready to hit that “Submit for review” button!
Congratulations!!! Yo walked through the whole process of submitting successfully a new Chrome Extension App.
Once it is approved and published successfully, you will be able to search it in the Chrome Web Store and add it to your browser, like I did:
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