Discussion on: Building Chrome extension with Vite ⚡️

[aderchox]

You've tagged TypeScript but there's no explanation on how to add extension development types. Only a -ts Vite template will not do miracles to add the right types.

[Rafał Goławski]

You're right, good point. I forgot about it because I didn't need anything from Chrome API in this example. Try running npm i -D @types/chrome or yarn add --dev @types/chrome, it should do the job.

[aderchox]

Thanks, but I've done this and it doesn't work. I'm using VSCode and the intellisense is completely unaware of any chrome types. Can you try this yourself too in a quick example project?

[JP]

Have you registered the types in your .tsconfig?

{
  // ...
  "compilerOptions": {
    // ...
    "types": ["chrome"],
  }
}

Mentioned here as well.

[Avinash Thakur]

What about chrome-types, which is mentioned in official docs ? developer.chrome.com/docs/extensio...

I see for some reason, it doesn't have much downloads also.