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Discussion on: Create a Google Chrome extension with ReactJS

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Why would you use React (or another similar framework/library) for an extension? Better to keep extensions slim and fast - vanilla JS FTW!

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pacholoamit

I can get behind this !

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Ivan Jeremic

You miss something(NewTab Page) you can create extension for the new tab which is a perfect place for an SPA so react makes sense here.

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Maybe, but for the majority of browser extensions this is bloat that should have no place there

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Ivan Jeremic • Edited

Depends there are tiny frameworks too which make developing easier like solid.js