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What are your biggest pain points when developing a browser extension?

by Vladyslav

I'll start with mine:

  1. Hot reload. It seems like there is no solution to this problem. Constantly hitting the refresh button or reuploading the package is truly a pain in the ass.
  2. Chrome storage logging. It's not a big deal to show console.logs of your chrome storage data and observe the changes, but it would be cool to have a UI interface like the built-in LocalStorage tab in the chrome dev tools.
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 on September 11, 2022
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    Solution for your pain points, which I use daily:

    1. Try to use the hotkey for reloading using the extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensions-reloader/fimgfedafeadlieiabdeeaodndnlbhid
    2. Try to use the extension:
      https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/storage-area-explorer/ocfjjjjhkpapocigimmppepjgfdecjkb
      It is like built-in LocalStorage, but for chrome storage data. So useful.

    Hope it helps!

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      Wow, thank you, didn't expect someone to help me with all the pain points at once :)

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