Joe232
December 26, 2024, 6:22am
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Was wondering if I could be suggested a few libraries that can allow me to design a chromium based extension?
jofas
December 26, 2024, 9:57am
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You can build Chrome extensions in Rust, which will work with Chromium just fine :
People,
I am interested in Rust generated WASM and I am wondering whether this approach would allow Chrome Extensions to be built?
I suppose an intermediate step would be for the JS to call a WASM module for the more heavy duty stuff . .
Thanks,
Phil.
Joe232
December 26, 2024, 10:07am
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This SO post from 2018 says it works (and there has been much improvement in WASM land since then, so it is probably even easier now to write a Chrome extension in WASM than it was five years ago). I found the WebNav extension that is open source and uses Rust and TypeScript. It was last updated in November 2022, but I guess it might still be a good place to start looking into building Chrome extensions with Rust+WASM. The Extension-with-WASM repo looks like another great project to look into an…
The two libraries are dead projects now.
jofas
December 26, 2024, 10:14am
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They still show you how to develop basic Chromium extensions. Also note this answer from the linked topic, it describes the tech stack someone used for one of their extensions.
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