cenkce / chrome-extension-tools

Bundling Chrome Extensions can be pretty complex. It doesn't have to be.

What is CRXJS?

CRXJS is a project to bring a modern developer experience to the Chrome Extension ecosystem. This repo houses two bundling libraries: a modern Vite plugin and a legacy Rollup plugin.

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Features

If you're starting a new Chrome Extension project, consider using @crxjs/vite-plugin. This Vite plugin brings all the features of Vite to the Chrome Extension developer experience.

	@crxjs/vite-plugin	rollup-plugin-chrome-extension
Works on	Vite ⚡	Rollup
Simple Config	Yes	Yes
HMR	True HMR	Auto-reload
Static Asset Imports	Yes	With config
MV3	Yes	Yes
MV2	-	Yes
Auto Web-accessible Resources	Yes	-
Documentation	CRXJS Vite Plugin Docs	Extend Chrome Docs
NPM

Supporting

If these plugins have helped you ship your product faster, please consider sponsoring me on GitHub.

Contributing

We encourage pull requests! This is a pnpm monorepo, so use pnpm instead of Yarn or npm.