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Discover how to build a minimal yet functional popup interface using plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This boilerplate introduces a simple popup.html and popup.js setup, helping you understand how to trigger actions from the browser toolbar using Manifest V3's action API.
Delve into the core mechanics of Chrome extensions with a lightweight background.js running as a Manifest V3 service worker. Learn how background scripts handle extension lifecycle events, initialize logic, and provide long-running functionality separate from web pages.
Explore how content scripts interact with webpages in real time. This boilerplate injects contentScript.js into YouTube pages, demonstrating how to manipulate or read content from a live website, enabling custom behavior or data scraping.
Understand the structure and power of the manifest.json file using the latest Manifest Version 3 standard. Get hands-on with background services, web-accessible resources, content script registration, and host permissions – all while adhering to Chrome’s security and performance guidelines.
Benefit from a clean and intuitive file organization:
popup/ – HTML and JS for the extension popup UI
scripts/ – Contains background.js and contentScript.js
icons/ – Folder for various icon sizes
manifest.json – Central configuration file Customize your extension's identity with predefined icons in multiple sizes (16px, 32px, 48px), ensuring your extension looks polished across all Chrome surfaces.
Gain control over which URLs your extension interacts with using host_permissions. This boilerplate grants access to <all_urls>, giving flexibility for development and experimentation.
Learn how to expose files (like your popup HTML) to be accessible by web pages or other extension components, using web_accessible_resources – an essential concept for inter-component communication.