
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a basic Chrome extension called a Browser Action extension.

An extension is basically just a web page that is hosted within Chrome and can access some additional APIs. Before we get started building our extension, it’s probably a good idea to have a basic understanding of what a Chrome extension is and how Chrome extensions work.Īt a very basic level, a Chrome extension is just some HTML, CSS and JavaScript that allows you to add some functionality to Chrome through some of the JavaScript APIs Chrome exposes.
