Create Chrome Extension (.crx)

Scaffolding your chrome extension, multiple boilerplates supported!

• 🚀 Lightning Fast HMR(use Vite@latest)
• 🌈 Multiple Framework Supported (React · Vue · Svelte · Preact · Solid · Alpine · Lit · Inferno · Stencil · Vanilla)
• 🥢 Multiple Language Supported (JavaScript · TypeScript)
• 🥡 Out of Box (Background \ Content \ Popup \ Options \ SidePanel \ DevTools \ NewTab)
• 🧶 Optimized Builds

English · 简体中文 · French · 한국어 · Indonesian · Русский · Deutsch · 日本語 (by ChatGPT)

Installing

Node >= 14.18.0

1# use npm-create command, or use pnpm | yarn
2λ npm create chrome-ext
3
4# or use npx command
5λ npx create-chrome-ext
6
7# or use npm-init command
8λ npm init chrome-ext

Usage

You can also directly specify the project name and the template you want to use via additional command line options. For example, to scaffold a Vite + Svelte project, run:

1# npm 6.x
2λ npm create chrome-ext@latest my-crx-app --template svelte-js
3
4# or npm 7+, extra double-dash is needed:
5λ npm create chrome-ext@latest my-crx-app -- --template react-ts
6
7# or yarn
8λ yarn create chrome-ext my-crx-app --template vue-ts
9
10# or pnpm
11λ pnpm create chrome-ext my-crx-app --template vanilla-ts

You can also generator the project with crx cli, run:

1λ npm install create-chrome-ext --global
2
3# and then
4λ crx my-crx-app
5# or
6λ crx my-crx-app --template preact-js
7# or use create-chrome-exe (global env)
8λ create-chrome-ext my-crx-app

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