Building Chrome extension using React.js, Redux and Gulp automation

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Interesting article about building Chrome browser extension. Building extension for Google Chrome is no different from building javascript application.

Simple approach to building using modern javascript ecosystem. Ecosystem is so huge and has many tools which helps in building solid javascript applications. In this post, author intends to show how make use of React with Redux to build Chrome extension.

Links to resources and boilerplate are present. There is a boilerplate which uses Webpack, and also built separate boilerplate using Gulp tasks involving Browserify & Css-modulesify.

Authors also includes simple walkthrough react source files which are included via Gist files. Good starting point for your next Google Chrome extension.

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