chrome-sidebar

Easiest way to embed an iframe as a chrome extension
built by Segment

Demo

Chrome sidebar demo

Features

6kb! minified
Completely customizable CSS that won't conflict with page styles
Mount any iframe or React component

Installation

yarn add chrome-sidebar
# or
npm install --save chrome-sidebar

Example

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import { Frame } from 'chrome-sidebar'
import { url } from './settings'

if (Frame.isReady()) {
  Frame.toggle()
} else {
  boot()
}

function boot() {
  const root = document.createElement('div')
  document.body.appendChild(root)

  const App = (
    <Frame url={url} />
  )

  ReactDOM.render(App, root)
}

Getting Started

Download an example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/segmentio/chrome-sidebar/tar.gz/master | tar -xz --strip=2 chrome-sidebar-master/examples/github-trending
cd github-trending

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

For development, you need to load it as an unpacked extension:

How to load unpacked extension

Now, you should have a chrome sidebar extension on all of your pages!

Production

In order to share your extension with others, publish to the Chrome Web Store. You can keep the extension unlisted (no one can search for it) or private (people have to be added to a Google group to see it).

Learn more about Chrome's manifest.json

License (MIT)

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