👋Get Started
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Once you purchase ChromeKit, you will be provided access to a few Github repositories. To start using the npx commands, you will have to do a few things first.
You will have to add a SSH Key to your Github account. If you already have one added, you are good and can skip the next few steps. If not, please continue to the next step.
Generate a new SSH Key if you don't have one in your laptop already.
Now add the SSK Key to your Github account.
That's it! This is a one time setup and you don't have to do it again on the same machine.
Choose the type of extension you want to build. You can checkout the types offered by ChromeKit
Once you have a chosen a type, go to the corresponding page under initialise category in the docs.
Common setup:
For content-script, content-script-sidebar, popup & side-panel run the below
This command will compile your JS code and adds it to the extension directory.
To load the extension in your browser, do the following
Navigate to chrome://extensions
Enable developer mode (Ignore if already enabled)
Click on Load Unpacked
Select the extension directory
To check the logs, click on service worker of your extension from chrome://extensions page. Here you can check the logs for background/service worker. Logs from content scripts will be shown in the individual tabs developer console. To check popup logs, open the extension popup, right click in the popup and select inspect. Go to console to see the popup logs.