@larscom/ng-chrome-extension

Easily create Google Chrome Extensions using the latest version of Angular.

The following scenarios/options are supported:

• Popup ✓
• New Tab ✓
• Options ✓
• Background Page ✓
• Content Page ✓

How to install

npm install -g @larscom/ng-chrome-extension

Start creating a new project

ng-chrome

How to use/develop

• change directory to your newly created project
• run npm run start
• goto: chrome://extensions in the browser and enable 'developer mode'
• press Load unpacked and target the folder angular/dist

The project is automatically being watched, any changes to the files will recompile the project.

NOTE: changes to the content page and background page scripts requires you to reload the extension in chrome://extensions

Build/package for production

• update version number inside ./angular/src/manifest.json
• run npm run build:production
• upload extension-build.zip to the chrome webstore.

This will run a production build and will automatically zip it as a extension package in the root folder named: extension-build.zip

Angular folder

This folder contains the angular source code. Each feature (popup,options,tab) lives inside its own module and gets lazily loaded.

see: ./angular/src/app/modules

Chrome folder

This folder contains the content page/background page scripts.