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Thanks! Here is the repo if you have any issues/suggestions: https://github.com/jlawrence6809/CSS-Selector-Helper-for-Chr...



How far did you have to deviate from the demo extension to make this? I've written themes for vscode and intellij but never done an actual extension because it's js/ts and I don't really enjoy writing those.

I really wish they had a DSL for extensions to allow them to be more broadly written. Like, I feel like I have to basically learn js to learn to write a chrome extension and I'm a go/rust dev who will use it literally nowhere and I just want to make the AWS console not suck, for instance.

But I keep trying to will someone like me into existence to make this extension and nobody is appearing lmao.


This extension is pretty unlike most of the examples the chrome docs provide because it extends the devtools which most extensions don't do. There are a lot of hidden gotchas you have to look out for when extending devtools and the api they provide just isn't as well thought out. However I actually made the first version of this extension when I was just starting out learning html/css/js and I think it was good project for that. I wouldn't worry about making something presentable for the webstore at first. Just build whatever you need with really bare bones UI and iterate if you forsee it being useful for other people. Maybe even start with a greasemonkey script.




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