Chrome

Creating a React based Chrome extension

By Maurice de Beijer

Creating Chrome extensions is quite easy. In fact it is so easy I found it hard to believe how quick I had a sample up and running. And given how useful Chrome extensions can be I wondered how hard it would be to create one using React. It turns out that it is easy   Creating a basic React app To get started I decided to create a React app using create-react-app.  This gave me a working React application to get started with. To turn an HTML page with JavaScript into a Chrome extension you need to add a package.json … Continue reading Creating a React based Chrome extension

Enabling Tincr on Windows 8

By Maurice de Beijer

Some time ago I posted a blog post on Tincr and live reloading of CSS/JavaScript in Google Chrome. This works really well with one exception, on Windows 8 it will not install. When you try Chrome shows the following error message: This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled. The Chromium team has acknowledged this as a bug but it still needs to be fixed.   The interim solution Fortunately Lauricio Su came up with a nice workaround and posted it in the Tincr discussion group. Basically his solution is to run Chrome in Windows 7 … Continue reading Enabling Tincr on Windows 8

Tincr and live reloading of CSS/JavaScript in Google Chrome

By Maurice de Beijer

The standard workflow with web development is run the web application, make some changes to your CSS in Visual Studio, flip back to the browser and reload the page to see the effect. While this works relatively well it can be somewhat slow at times.   One improvement is make changes to your CSS in the browser. I use Google Chrome as my main browser and it’s CSS and JavaScript viewer is actually an editor so you can make changes there. The nice thing is you see the effect of your changes immediately making for a much faster feedback loop. … Continue reading Tincr and live reloading of CSS/JavaScript in Google Chrome