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react-chrome-extension
This is the first in a series of React boilerplate projects to help web developers learn and understand React. This project actually came about as I was creating my latest project, StyleStash - Save Your favorite CSS Styles.
Video Code Walkthrough
If you're more of a visual learner, I've recorded a 20 minute video walkthrough of this project.
Local Testing
npm start
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
Testing Inside Chrome
This project needs to be built in order to take advantage of the Chrome Extension API, such as using the Content script to get the extension's ID, or using the Chrome Storage API. These features cannot be used when running this project locally.
To load as a developer extension inside of Chrome:
npm run build- Navigate to
chrome://extensions/in your browser - Toggle the
Developer modeswitch on in the top right hand corner - Click the
Load unpackedbutton in the top left corner - Select the
buildfolder inside of this project folder
Builds the app for Chrome to the build folder.