React Rust Chrome Starter
Chrome extension template with Rust and React using Vite and tailwind
Overview
The React-Rust-Chrome template offers a compelling approach for developers looking to leverage the power of Rust alongside React to build efficient Chrome extensions. This combination allows you to tap into Rust's performance benefits while utilizing React's flexibility for your user interface. With a focus on TypeScript and modern development tools, this template greatly simplifies the process of creating and deploying high-performance Chrome extensions.
This setup is particularly advantageous for projects that require heavy logic processing, where Rust shines, while keeping the user interface lightweight with React. By harnessing technologies like Vite for builds and crxjs for real-time development, your workflow becomes seamless and user-friendly.
Features
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Rust & WASM Integration: Easily utilize Rust for core logic, compiled to WebAssembly for superior performance in your Chrome extension.
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React for UI: A simple integration of React ensures that your interface remains dynamic and responsive while relying on Rust for the heavy lifting.
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TypeScript Support: Type safety with TypeScript enhances productivity and helps avoid common runtime errors, leading to smoother development experiences.
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Hot Module Replacement (HMR): Allows for live development without the need to refresh the extension manually, significantly speeding up the development cycle.
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Vite for Builds: Streamlines the build process, helping manage configurations efficiently and keep your focus on development.
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Customizable Manifest: Offers flexibility to personalize your extension details like icons and logos easily, ensuring a unique user experience.
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Development & Build Workflow: Structured for ease from installation to generating the final built extension, encapsulated in a clear and straightforward process.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Vite
Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects
- LESS
Less CSS is a dynamic stylesheet language that extends the capabilities of CSS, allowing developers to write cleaner, more modular, and reusable stylesheets with features like variables, mixins, and nested rules.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- cmdk
cmdk is a fast, composable command menu component for React. It provides the foundation for building command palettes, search interfaces, and keyboard-navigable menus similar to those found in applications like VS Code, Linear, and Raycast.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.