arikw / chrome-extensions-reloader

A chrome extension for reloading unpacked extensions
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensions-reloader/fimgfedafeadlieiabdeeaodndnlbhid
Apache License 2.0
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Deprecation notice on manifest v2 #23

Open kawazoe opened 2 years ago

kawazoe commented 2 years ago

I am currently working on migrating a chrome extension from manifest v2 to v3 and thought extensions-reloader would be useful to me. I noticed that you're still using the old manifest format and, due to low activity on your repo, thought you might have missed the deprecation warnings. Here's the details: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-migration/

The biggest change is that the background page is gone and replaced with a service worker.

arikw commented 2 years ago

Thank you for the heads-up. If you'd be able to contribute to the migration, it would be of great help to me.

kawazoe commented 1 year ago

@arikw I don't think I'll have the time to work on this.

There is also some pretty solid tooling for rollup and vite now that can accomplish a similar task. It's unfortunate for your extension really because the value proposition of rollup/vite is just way, way higher than just a reloader when compared to the effort it takes to setup those tools...

If you don't have the time to migrate your extension, then I would recommend people switch over to that toolset and move on. :disappointed_relieved: