A Vite powered WebExtension (Chrome, FireFox, etc.) starter template.
Popup
Options Page
Inject React App into the Content Script
- ⚡️ Instant HMR - use Vite on dev (no more refresh!)
- ⚛️ - Use React with Hooks and more.
- 💬 Effortless communications - powered by
webext-bridge
andreact-use-storage
- 🍃 Windi CSS - on-demand CSS utilities
- 🦾 TypeScript - type safe
- 🌟 Icons - Access to icons from any iconset directly
- 🖥 Content Script - Use React even in content script
- 🌍 WebExtension - isomorphic extension for Chrome, Firefox, and others
- 📃 Dynamic
manifest.json
with full type support
webextension-polyfill
- WebExtension browser API Polyfill with typeswebext-bridge
- effortlessly communication between contexts
unplugin-icons
- icons as componentsvite-plugin-windicss
- WindiCSS support
react-use-storage
- useful storage hooks
- Windi CSS - next generation utility-first CSS framework
- TypeScript
- pnpm - fast, disk space efficient package manager
- esno - TypeScript / ESNext node runtime powered by esbuild
- npm-run-all - Run multiple npm-scripts in parallel or sequential
- web-ext - Streamlined experience for developing web extensions
Create a repo from this template on GitHub.
If you prefer to do it manually with the cleaner git history
If you don't have pnpm installed, run: npm install -g pnpm
npx degit sohcah/vite-react-webext my-webext
cd my-webext
pnpm i
src
- main source.contentScript
- scripts and components to be injected ascontent_script
background
- scripts for background.components
- React components that shared in popup and options page.styles
- styles shared in popup and options pagemanifest.ts
- manifest for the extension.
extension
- extension package root.assets
- static assets.dist
- built files, also serve stub entry for Vite on development.
scripts
- development and bundling helper scripts.
pnpm dev
Then load extension in browser with the extension/
folder.
For Firefox developers, you can run the following command instead:
pnpm start:firefox
web-ext
auto reload the extension when extension/
files changed.
While Vite handles HMR automatically in the most of the case, Extensions Reloader is still recommanded for cleaner hard reloading.
To build the extension, run
pnpm build
And then pack files under extension
, you can upload extension.crx
or extension.xpi
to appropriate extension store.
This template is originally made for the volta.net browser extension.
This is a variant of Vitesse, check out the full variations list.