/vite-vue3-chrome-extension-v3

Another vite powered web extension (chrome, firefox, etc.) starter template.

Primary LanguageTypeScript

vite-vue3-chrome-extension-v3

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A Vite powered WebExtension (Chrome, FireFox, etc.) starter template.

Features

  • Vue 3 - Composition API, Script setup and more!
  • Vue 3 app in Content Script too (template added)
  • HMR for extension pages and content scripts
  • Tailwind css for UI
  • Vue Router setup incuding vite-plugin-pages for automatic route registration
  • Effortless communications - powered by webext-bridge and VueUse storage
  • Components auto importing
  • Icons - Access to icons from any iconset directly
  • TypeScript - type safe
  • Eslint & Prettier configured for vue, javascript, typescript
  • CRXJS Vite Plugin Build a Chrome Extension with Vite

Please create an issue if you feel some feature is missing or could be improved.

Pre-packed

WebExtension Libraries

Vite Plugins

Vue Plugins

  • VueUse - collection of useful composition APIs

UI Frameworks

Coding Style

Use the Template

GitHub Template

Create a repo from this template on GitHub.

Clone to local

If you prefer to do it manually with the cleaner git history

If you don't have pnpm installed, run: npm install -g pnpm

pnpx degit mubaidr/vite-vue3-chrome-extension-v3 my-webext
cd my-webext
pnpm i

Usage

Folders

  • src - main source.
    • content-script - scripts and components to be injected as content_script
      • iframe content script iframe vue3 app which will be injected into page
    • background - scripts for background.
    • popup - popup vuejs application root
      • pages - popup pages
    • options - options vuejs application root
      • pages - options pages
    • pages - application pages, common to all views (About, Contact, Authentication etc)
    • components - auto-imported Vue components that are shared in popup and options page.
    • assets - assets used in Vue components
  • dist - built files, also serve stub entry for Vite on development.

Development

pnpm dev

Then load extension in browser with the dist/ folder.

Build

To build the extension, run

pnpm build

And then pack files under dist, you can upload dist.crx or dist.xpi to appropriate extension store.

Credits

This template is heavenly inspired by: https://github.com/antfu/vitesse-webext