The Journey So Far I’m building a web app/Chrome extension pair that allows your bookmarks to “decay” (grow old and disappear) over time; the intention is to encourage you to actually read those tabs you have open as opposed to letting them linger until your browser crashes. The app is built, data displayed, bookmarks properly styled with decaying animations, so now I’m adding additional data interaction and the ability to set the decay rate.

While the docs for creating a Chrome extension are really quite good, I initially struggled to figure out the right way for my extension to communicate with a webapp (specifically: sending a request for data from the webapp to an extension and receiving a response). There can be a lot to read, and with extension changes from Manifest v2 to v3 some docs can be a bit misleading as well. I thought I’d distill my knowledge on this to a simple tutorial and hopefully make this easier for anybody out there who needs it.

The Journey So Far I’m building a web app/Chrome extension pair that allows your bookmarks to “decay” (grow old and disappear) over time; the intention is to encourage you to actually read those tabs you have open as opposed to letting them linger until your browser crashes. The basic core of the webapp is done (data fetched and displayed, simply), so now it’s time to apply some styles to visually identify decaying bookmarks.

The Journey So Far I’m building a web app/Chrome extension pair that allows your bookmarks to “decay” (grow old and disappear) over time; the intention is to encourage you to actually read those tabs you have open as opposed to letting them linger until your browser crashes. Now that I’ve completed the MVP for the extension, it’s time to work on the web app! Missed another part of this project series?

The Journey So Far I’m building a web app/Chrome extension pair that allows your bookmarks to “decay” (grow old and disappear) over time; the intention is to encourage you to actually read those tabs you have open as opposed to letting them linger until your browser crashes. Now that I’ve completed the MVP for the extension, it’s time to work on the web app! Missed another part of this project series?