jamescardona11 / flutter_chrome_extension_demo

Flutter Chrome Extension

The repository will provide a comprehensive exploration of how to create a Chrome Extension Flutter; covering fundamental concepts.

The true power of Flutter is its ability to create cross-platform applications allowing also to expand to the web and chrome extension; but some important questions to creating more powerful extensions continue as a mystery for me; for that reason this post is the beginning of journey for me to understand how to do it.

Posts

• Part 1
• Part 2

Result

We dive into summarize a page using the ChatGPT API

The achieved goals

• Create a Chrome Extension with Flutter
• Understand how to communicate between the background script and the content script
• Use the ChatGPT API to summarize a page
• Use js and js_interop to communicate between Dart and JavaScript

What's next?

We covered how to use the Dart interop to call JS functions from the Dart code, and how to communicate between the extension components. I still have some pending goals to achieve using the extension. When I finish them, I will write something on my LinkedIn or Twitter.