Browser Extensions/Add-ons helps us to personalize our browser as per our needs. We all have used a number of browser extensions in our life to improve our browsing experience either in chrome, firefox or opera.

Instead of just being an End-User, Why not create one? and become a cross-browser extension developer.

WebExtensions API are the future of browser extension. With this API, Developers can write extensions that can work in almost all browsers. Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS is enough to write an extension of your own. In this session, I will walk-through the anatomy of WebExtensions, how to create your first web extension, introducing various API's like Context Menu, tabs, Alarm & notification API. Finally on how to run and debug the extension.

Why should I attend the session?

Maintaining different extension code base for each browser is a huge engineering as well as financial effort. Building one extension that works for all browser saves efforts!
WebExtensions are the future of browser extension. Attendees will learn how to write one in 30 minutes.
Attendees only need to have a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS.
Knowledge takeaway of various WebExtension APIs like Context Menu, tabs, Alarm & Notification APIs.

CityJS London 2022

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