Chrome Extension Boilerplate React Vite
Chrome Extension Boilerplate with React + Vite + Typescript
Overview:
This project is a boilerplate for creating chrome extensions using React and Typescript. The focus of this project was to improve build speed and development experience with Vite.
Features:
- React 18
- TypeScript
- Vite
- React Testing Library
- SASS
- Prettier
- ESLint
- Husky
- Commitlint
- Conventional Commits
- Chrome Extension Manifest Version 3
- HRR (Hot Rebuild & Refresh/Reload)
Summary:
This project is a boilerplate for creating chrome extensions using React and Typescript. It focuses on improving build speed and development experience with Vite. It includes several features such as React 18, TypeScript, Vite, and more. The installation process involves cloning the repository, installing dependencies, and configuring the extension for either Chrome or Firefox.
- 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
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- 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.