[tmpfs]

I decided to try this recently on my first browser extension and so far the experience has been good.

Sometimes the websocket connection for the hot reload dies but apart from that I've been quite impressed.

Just abstracting away the different manifest files and using the webextension polyfill is all I need and it works.

The only shame is how abysmal the experience is in Firefox I find myself preferring to debug the extension in Chrome as getting to the debugger in Firefox is such a pain. And I use Firefox as my primary browser so it's not because of a Chrome bias I say this. The Firefox folks could really improve the UX here.

[sureIy]

> using the webextension polyfill

What for? All browsers now have a promised API

> The Firefox folks could really improve the UX here

I wouldn't hold my breath.