POC of sharing a variable from page .js to Chrome ext background .js
To prepare a dev env for this Chrome extension project, the article from "corey cleary" was very useful. I appreciate sharing such a great article. The points in my mind was
- Use Babel for ES6
- Use webpack-dev-server for easy browser based testing
The source file is hosted on github.com https://github.com/coreyc/reading-list .
TWO(2) terminals are required ;). One is for testing the webpage, the other one is for testing Chrome extension. Since webpack-dev-server does NOT save re-built files but save it in memory, it is required to save it into actual file system, before reloading Chrome extension.
npm run server
npm run watch