I don't know too much about chrome extensions, but can kobweb used to build one?

# kobweb

[mohamed rejeb]

I don't know too much about chrome extensions, but can kobweb used to build one?

[David Herman]

I successfully created a project as a test to make a working chrome extension, yes

[David Herman]

Unfortunately I bailed due to the unpleasant experience of publishing a chrome extension, because even just for internal testing purposes constrained to a limited set of a few emails (my own and my wife's, actually!), it was so extremely difficult.

[David Herman]

You should be prepared to have all sorts of digital forms filled out for them. It's pretty extensive. At one point I got it working, and then I tried to push out an update like two months later, and some new rules had come up and they rejected it -- even though, as I said, it was an internal build meant only for testing.

[David Herman]

Note that this was for the type of Chrome extension where you click on a button and a window pops up. If you're trying to build an extension where you hook into existing page's elements, that's probably not a job for Kobweb, but you could probably still use Kotlin/JS for that.

[David Herman]

If you look through any of their tutorials, you'll see that ultimately you need to provide a .js and an .html file. Kobweb and Kotlin/JS both produce a .js file and Kobweb produces an .html file, so that's the basics for how to think about hooking things up.

[David Herman]

If you're still committed to trying, I guess take a look at https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/get-started/tutorial/hello-world to become familiar with their project organization.

[David Herman]

If you spend time on it, ping me and I can help you get set up; just make sure to go through a tutorial first. I highly recommend you look into the steps needed to publish a full extension on the Chrome Store because it is a lot and you're at the whims of a giant, opaque system. (Compared to, say, just creating a website and hosting it somewhere, where you're in control and the turnaround time for updates is less than a minute)

[mohamed rejeb]

Thanks for the detailed answer, I will give it a try and let you know how it goes.