What do you want to build?īefore you start, you should have a rough idea of what you want to build. If you’re not experienced yet in building web pages, I recommend you first dive into some free resources to learn how to code, like freeCodeCamp. The only thing you need to learn is how to add some functionality to Chrome through some of the JavaScript APIs that Chrome exposes. If you’ve ever built a web page, you’ll will be able to create an extension faster than you can have lunch. That’s awesome because you can create new extensions for Chrome with core technologies that web developers are very familiar with - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. What is a Chrome extension?Ĭhrome extensions allow you to add functionality to the Chrome web browser without diving deeply into native code. Follow these steps and your idea will turn into reality and you’ll be able to publish a real extension in the Chrome Web Store in no time.

extension.isAllowedFileSchemeAccess and extension.By Jake Prins How to Create and Publish a Chrome Extension in 20 minutes Photo by Mikes Photos: Įver wondered what it would be like to create a Chrome extension? Well, I’m here to tell you just how easy it is.

File System Provider API Extension Example.

Block/allow third-party cookies API example extension.

Block/allow referrer API example extension.

A browser action with a popup that changes the page color.

A browser action which changes its icon when clicked.

You can find the scraper used to generate this repository (except for a git init and push)Ĭontent is licensed under the Google BSD License. If you would like to clone a part of this repository, use git UPDATE: Google have posted their own repository for Chrome extensions here: So, I decided to scrape the content into this repository for easier browsing and (possible) chrome-extensions-examplesĮxist as a Git repository, and browsing both the samples page and the VCViewer did not seem particularly The resources on browser support and incompatibilities may be of interest. There is an ongoing effort to standardize the Extensions on different browsers, as discussed on MDN and defined in the WebExtensions Spec Draft. Report any issues with the examples themselves to Google's issue trackers/forums.

This is not an official mirror of the Chrome extension examples.

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