Alba Silvente, Fullstack Engineer at Servlug, discusses unlocking web extension power with Vue. Shows demo features and AI API usage. Talks about building extensions, standards, structures, open-source tools, and practical use cases. Explores the simplicity and benefits of web extensions for customization, automation, and time-saving. Mentions varied functionalities like translation, JSON formatting, and form filling using extensions. Exploring form-filling extensions and building web extensions with Manifest V3 and Vue. Understanding the structure and components like pop-up and sidebar pages. Discussing manifest.json for defining extension details, background JavaScript in service worker context, and creating popup and sidebar pages. Discussing the importance of different contexts for popup and sidebar pages, customization with various JavaScript frameworks, and utilizing content scripts to interact with web pages. Communicating with content scripts, configuring settings via the options page, and extending web extensions with various functionalities like overriding home pages, bookmarks, history, and adding options to the context menu. Communicating with browser APIs for web extensions using packages like WebExtension Polyfy and webext. Storing data in web extensions efficiently with specialized storage areas. Simplifying communication between components using the WebX Bridge package for seamless browser API interactions. Using Vite and WXT frameworks for web extension development. Implementing preference configuration and communication flow between components for efficient web extension creation with WXD. Defining items in local storage for preferences and using composable for shared components in web extensions development. Using extension storage for web extension synchronization and integrating AI APIs for text analysis. Exploring Content Script Actions, Background API Communication, and Extension Deployment.
Node Congress 2022
