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Aug 16, 2019
Apr 22, 2020

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Manifest: clear or obvious to the eye or mind.

Chrome Extension

Extensions are event based programs used to modify or enhance the Chrome browsing experience.

Extensions monitor these events in their background script, then react with specified instructions.
Monetize building Chrome Apps
Can have permissions, just like other google products (OAuth)
Register the App using manifest file.
Extension can have a User Interface or a Popup
Browser has its own storage area.

What can extensions do?

React to chrome events
can altering the look and behavior of web pages
store manage passwords
display data from external API, service
Send data to external service

build an extension that allows the user to change the background color of any page

Everything in google chrome web store starts with a manifest file. The directory holding the manifest file can be added as an extension in developer mode in its current state.


  {
    "name": "Getting Started Example",
    "version": "1.0",
    "description": "Build an Extension!",
    "background": {
      "scripts": [
          "background.js",
          "backgroundContextMenus.js",
          "backgroundOmniBox.js",
        ],
      "persistent": false
    },
    "manifest_version": 2
  }

Background scripts monitors events and loads when specific event occurs, then performs its task (like data manipulation or API calls)

Footnotes

[1]: Chrome Apps [2]: Sample Project