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How To Create A Google Chrome Extension With React
Let’s take a look at how we can create a popup Google Chrome extension using React, TypeScript and craco npm package
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7 min readNov 29, 2020
What will be covered in this story:
- 1. What are the extensions?
- 2. Create React app
- 3. Manifest.json file
- 4. Popup width and height restrictions
- 5. Retrieving active tab’s URL
- 6. Manipulating DOM content (content scripts)
- 7. Overriding Create React App configuration
Link to Github repository with a complete solution
What are the extensions?
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