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by mightyham 1020 days ago
I'm somewhat confused about what problem this is solving, but I also have a lot of questions.

Does the dev mode use HMR? Can the cli upload bundles extensions to respective browser's stores? Does it work with any web framework supported by vite? Does it work with all vite/roll-up plugins?

This project is very interesting to me because I currently have a published Firefox extension that uses Vite, NPM, and Solid.js.
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JoeyDoey 1020 days ago
Yes to all this. But the project is super new so supports just React right now. The idea is to support all officially supported vite templates in ts and js, so: vue, react, preact, lit, svelte, solid, qwik.

> what its trying to solve:

I want a Next.js + Vercel dev experience but for building browser extensions: push to main > run a workflow > determine if it should publish > publish (to all my chosen web stores)

I want an actual dev workflow (like I'm used to in regular web/app development in 2023) but again, tailored for browser extensions.

Basically I wanted something that doesn't abstract the usual Vite setup. Just give me the usual niceties of working with client-side react w/ Vite. So yes, you get the vite/rollup plugins as usual.

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