Webpack-dev-server: Chrome Extensions dev

[ladas-larry]

It would be great to make webpack-dev-server ready for Chrome Extensions development.

[schovi]

@Dharmoslap hello. We are currently developing extension and we use React with Webpack and Hot reload. I try to distil our know-how into clean repo, which can be used as bootstrap for new extensions.
So there it is: https://github.com/schovi/webpack-chrome-extension
(There is not React actually, but you will find how to do that)

[ladas-larry]

Great! :+1:

[schovi]

@Dharmoslap Feedbac or Pull requests will be appreciated. I made few more changes and fixes. There was mess with npm packages.

[ladas-larry]

Good, I will implement a simple app using Redux.js and Pull request the result to your repo.

[SpaceK33z]

Closing since webpack-chrome-extension seems to do the job very well. Feel free to re-open if you think webpack-dev-server should implement this.

[tonytonyjan]

@schovi How do you make Cross-Origin XMLHttpRequest with webpack-dev-server?

[franciscolourenco]

@SpaceK33z schovi/webpack-chrome-extension directs to schovi/create-chrome-extension which is incomplete and was last updated 3 years ago.

There is a plugin which suggests hot reloading, but instead hard reloads the entire extension when a content or background scripts changes. Actual pages like options, popup, etc are not supported. webpack-extension-reloader

It would be nice indeed to have a plugin or mode which runs webpack-dev-server and which at the same time outputs files which contain the hot module client, so that they can be initially loaded by the browser as an extension.