vitesse-webext vs chrome-ext-mv3-starter

vitesse-webext

⚡️ WebExtension Vite Starter Template (by antfu-collective)

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⚡️ Modernized Chrome Extension Manifest V3 Vite Starter Template (by xiaoluoboding)

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vitesse-webext		chrome-ext-mv3-starter
	Project
7	Mentions	2
2,606	Stars	137
4.4%	Growth	-
5.7	Activity	1.9
3 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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vitesse-webext

Posts with mentions or reviews of vitesse-webext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-06.

Browser extension Framework or Scaffold with vue3
4 projects | /r/vuejs | 6 Mar 2023

This should be the best one: https://github.com/antfu/vitesse-webext
Things I learned this week - Week 48 (2022 ed.)
1 project | dev.to | 7 Dec 2022
Browser/Chrome extension with Vue 3
3 projects | /r/vuejs | 20 Jul 2022
Plasmo – a framework for building modern Chrome extensions
2 projects | /r/javascript | 3 Jun 2022
Electron alternative
4 projects | /r/vuejs | 27 Jan 2022

It sounds like your goals align better with writing an extension. For example, you could use this Vite WebExtension starter for the frontend and have it connect to a background Node process through Native Messaging.
Vue in a Chrome extension
2 projects | /r/vuejs | 9 Nov 2021

There is also this option: https://github.com/antfu/vitesse-webext . It has most thing preconfigured and uses more modern tools.
Created A ⚡️ Modernized Chrome Extension Vite Starter Template.
2 projects | /r/chrome_extensions | 6 Aug 2021

This template derives from https://github.com/antfu/vitesse-webext

chrome-ext-mv3-starter

Posts with mentions or reviews of chrome-ext-mv3-starter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-20.

Browser/Chrome extension with Vue 3
3 projects | /r/vuejs | 20 Jul 2022
Created A ⚡️ Modernized Chrome Extension Vite Starter Template.
2 projects | /r/chrome_extensions | 6 Aug 2021

Repos Link: https://github.com/xiaoluoboding/vitesse-modernized-chrome-ext

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vitesse-webext and chrome-ext-mv3-starter you can also consider the following projects:

vue-web-extension - 🛠️ A Vue CLI 3+ preset (previously a Vue CLI 2 boilerplate) for quickly starting a web extension with Vue, Babel, ESLint and more!

electron-vite-vue - 🥳 Really simple Electron + Vite + Vue boilerplate.

vite-aliases - Alias auto generation for Vite

vue3-realworld-example-app - Explore the charm of Vue composition API! Vite?

unplugin-vue-components - 📲 On-demand components auto importing for Vue

plasmo - 🧩 The Browser Extension Framework

vue-draggable-next - Vue 3 drag-and-drop component

react-vite-crxjs-chrome-boilerplate - Boilerplate for creating a Google Chrome Extension with React + Vitejs + CRXJS.

devdocs-web-ext - A browser extension for DevDocs.