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by wbobeirne 1021 days ago
This is a much needed area for development, most of my extension projects are held together by glue. However, I'm not entirely sure what Bedframe does at first glance. The docs page says coming soon and just 404s, the homepage is just a splash page with an email form (that does not actually seem to submit!) I'll read through the code at some point, and it looks like the individual project READMEs are more fleshed out, but definitely needs a better upfront explanation of what aspects of extension development it's trying to solve.

EDIT: It's also very unclear what state this project is in. The README has instructions for getting started with the CLI, but also says that I should sign up to join early access? Is this ready to use? What aspect of this project requires membership? Is there a hosted component or subscription model hidden in here?
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JoeyDoey 1021 days ago
Author here! the project is super new. alpha, at best.

Basically if you wanted to build browser extensions using modern stack, bedframe lets you do that. Specifically it uses Vite under the hood so you can write e.g. a chrome extension in e.g. React w/ TypeScript, Tailwind, and all that good stuff.

I think the CLI readme has a bit more useful info: https://github.com/nyaggah/bedframe/tree/main/packages/cli

The notable bit is the mvp.yml workflow you get in your project. It'll let you publish to chrome, firefox and edge automatically (ci/cd).

> It's also very unclear what state this project is in.

fair enough! Wanted to get something out there first; I'll get the docs out soon

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yuppiepuppie 1021 days ago
I’m in the same boat. I got in the world of extension development last year, and oh my, what a crazy mess. Apart from browser compatibility, I was really hoping for some product to help out with the operational stuff.
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JoeyDoey 1021 days ago
Ooof!! It is an... interesting time right now in extensions land. The switch from MV2 to MV3 is a bit chaotic but hopefully tools like this (Bedframe) and tools like [Plasmo](https://github.com/PlasmoHQ/plasmo) start to inject some freshness in the space.
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civilitty 1021 days ago
How does Bedframe compare with Plasmo? What are your plans moving forward?
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galuggus 1021 days ago
Do you know when Google will depreciate MV2 extensions?
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dotproto 1020 days ago
No one does at the moment. The deprecation is on hold, but Chrome has stated that they "will provide at least 6 months between a timeline announcement and any experiments deprecating MV2 features": https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/migrating/mv2-s...
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