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• extension.js

  7 3,188 9.7 TypeScript

  🧩 Plug-and-play, zero-config, cross-browser extension development tool.

FWIW there's an existing issue for "firefox support" which you can subscribe to in order to be notified when this feature lands.

https://github.com/cezaraugusto/extension.js/issues/5

• omnivore-list-popup

  1 56 8.6 TypeScript

  Web extension for Firefox and Chrome that shows a popup with a list of your Omnivore articles to quickly open or archive (similar to the In My Pocket extension).

Very cool stuff! I might check this out for my extension (https://github.com/herrherrmann/omnivore-list-popup). So far, I’ve been creating my own scripts to manage the extension builds, dev mode etc. – but I’ve been eyeing web-ext already to make my life easier. However, my main browser is Firefox, which doesn’t seem fully supported yet by Extension, right?

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• web-ext

  11 2,589 9.3 JavaScript

  A command line tool to help build, run, and test web extensions

  

I’ve been pretty happy with web-ext, I’m curious what abstractions and configurations Extensions.js avoids comparatively. I’m assuming you’ll still need a manifest.json, and it looks like both use npm/package.json for dependencies.

https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext

• spect

  1 74 5.2 JavaScript

  Observable selectors in DOM (by dy)

IMO MutationObserver's API is a bit difficult to grasp. For simpler cases for getting a callback when an element is created, I use spect[1] or sentinel[2].

1: https://github.com/dy/spect

• sentineljs

  1 1,126 2.7 JavaScript

  Detect new DOM nodes using CSS selectors (650 bytes)

  

• webextensions

  37 566 8.3 Bikeshed

  Charter and administrivia for the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG)

  

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