I'm running the extension from WSL2 Ubuntu on windows 10. I just can't seem to get the auto-reloading to work because of the connectivity issue. Everything else works fine.. my APIs which are also inside WSL2 connect perfectly fine via localhost.

I also tried the server host to 0.0.0.0 but it changed nothing.

Any help is appreciated.

When I use this plugin, the map file generated for background.service_worker script is skipped.

The current JSON schema used for manifest validation only includes not-allowed and spanning for the incognito property where as the current v3 schema supports all of the following: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/manifest/incognito.

This causes builds to fail that don't skip manifest validation.

The docs on Usage did not work in my setup. I was getting a TypeError: saying WebextensionPlugin is not a constructor. I had to replace it with the following:

import { WebextensionPlugin } from "@webextension-toolbox/webpack-webextension-plugin";

const config = {
  plugins: [
    new WebextensionPlugin({
      vendor: "chrome",
    }),
  ],
};

I can submit a PR for this, but I'm not sure if this is the correct behavior or if my setup had to do with the issue.

Upgrading our setup to Webpack 5.28.0 yields this warning:

(node:12778) [DEP_WEBPACK_COMPILATION_ASSETS] DeprecationWarning: Compilation.assets will be frozen in future, all modifications are deprecated.
BREAKING CHANGE: No more changes should happen to Compilation.assets after sealing the Compilation.
	Do changes to assets earlier, e. g. in Compilation.hooks.processAssets.
	Make sure to select an appropriate stage from Compilation.PROCESS_ASSETS_STAGE_*.
    at WebextensionPlugin.addManifest (.../node_modules/webpack-webextension-plugin/index.js:211:41)
    at async Promise.all (index 1)

Note: running node --trace-deprecation ./node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js to provide a stack trace.

It correspond to this code line.

I believe this is not the case for manifest V3?

Using a mostly standard setup, the first dev compile outputs the correct manifest.json but every reload after uses the non-compiled version.

E.g. first compilation outputs:

{
  "name": "__MSG_appName__",
  "description": "__MSG_appDescription__",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "short_name": "__MSG_appShortName__",
  "manifest_version": 3,
  "default_locale": "en",
  "background": {
    "scripts": [
      "serviceWorker.js",
      "webextension-toolbox/background_page.js"
    ]
  },
  "content_scripts": [
    {
      "matches": [
        "<all_urls>"
      ],
      "js": [
        "contentScript.js"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "permissions": [
    "storage",
    "scripting"
  ],
  "options_ui": {
    "page": "pages/options.html",
    "open_in_tab": true
  },
  "action": {
    "default_title": "__MSG_browserActionTitle__",
    "default_popup": "pages/popup.html",
    "default_icon": {
      "16": "images/icon-16x.png",
      "32": "images/icon-32x.png",
      "48": "images/icon-48x.png",
      "128": "images/icon-128x.png"
    }
  },
  "icons": {
    "16": "images/icon-16x.png",
    "32": "images/images-32x.png",
    "48": "images/icon-48x.png",
    "128": "images/icon-128x.png"
  },
  "browser_specific_settings": {
    "gecko": {
      "id": "[email protected]"
    }
  }
}

Second compilation:

{
  "name": "__MSG_appName__",
  "short_name": "__MSG_appShortName__",
  "description": "__MSG_appDescription__",
  "manifest_version": 3,
  "default_locale": "en",
  "background": {
    "scripts": ["serviceWorker.js"]
  },
  "content_scripts": [
    {
      "matches": ["<all_urls>"],
      "js": ["contentScript.js"]
    }
  ],
  "permissions": ["storage", "scripting"],
  "options_ui": {
    "page": "pages/options.html",
    "open_in_tab": true
  },
  "action": {
    "default_title": "__MSG_browserActionTitle__",
    "default_popup": "pages/popup.html",
    "default_icon": {
      "16": "images/icon-16x.png",
      "32": "images/icon-32x.png",
      "48": "images/icon-48x.png",
      "128": "images/icon-128x.png"
    }
  },
  "icons": {
    "16": "images/icon-16x.png",
    "32": "images/images-32x.png",
    "48": "images/icon-48x.png",
    "128": "images/icon-128x.png"
  },
  "__firefox|safari__browser_specific_settings": {
    "gecko": {
      "id": "[email protected]"
    }
  }
}

First compile output shows:

asset manifest.json 1.08 KiB [emitted]

Second compile output shows:

asset manifest.json 997 bytes [emitted] [from: manifest.json] [copied]

I've outputted the changedFiles variables and it's everything in the source tree excluding dist, but including manifest.json for some reason.

Tried using --copy-ignore but couldn't figure out how to inject "packages" with globs.

If this is a code issue, I could help submit a PR. If this is a setup issue, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Error during extension autorefresh:

    // Full reload manifest changed
    if (changedFiles.some(file => file === 'manifest.json')) {
      smartReloadExtension()
    }

The script name needs to be retrieved from the manifest file instead of being hardcoded.

See:

Reference: webextension-toolbox/webextension-toolbox#82

Thanks to @j1mie for the find

Hello,

I'm using webpack 5, I have this error

[webpack-cli] TypeError: Cannot read property 'entries' of undefined
    at WebextensionPlugin.extractChangedFiles (C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\webpack-webextension-plugin\index.js:246:57)
    at WebextensionPlugin.reloadExtensions (C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\webpack-webextension-plugin\index.js:226:31)
    at WebextensionPlugin.done (C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\webpack-webextension-plugin\index.js:98:10)
    at Hook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:33:10), <anonymous>:26:1)
    at Hook.CALL_ASYNC_DELEGATE [as _callAsync] (C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:18:14)
    at Watching._done (C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\webpack\lib\Watching.js:260:28)
    at C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\webpack\lib\Watching.js:183:21
    at Compiler.emitRecords (C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:864:39)
    at C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\webpack\lib\Watching.js:161:22
    at C:\projects\ck_ip_browser_extension\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:846:14

from this doc I found that
Compilation.fileTimestamps and contextTimestamps removed
MIGRATION: Use Compilation.fileSystemInfo instead

it would be nice to get some clues about what actually fails. related to webextension-toolbox/webextension-toolbox#106

Hi! Thank for the great job that has been done here.

I have a question though, is there a way to define a custom path to the manifest.json file?

Since I'm not very use to work with webpack and related tools, I might be missing something. But, as far as I understand, the plugin will always look for the manifest in options.context path. Maybe an additional option to set the manifest path could do the job? With a fallback to the default one.

this package depends on joi version ^13.3.0 which depends on hoek version 5.x.x which has been deleted for security reasons. therefore I think this package needs to update joi package to its latest version.

I could make a PR but I am not sure how to test these changes.

The current dev reload script is added to the manifest under backend.scripts, which creates a conflict if the app is using a backend page instead backend.page as only one of these methods may be used at a time.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/background

I suppose that background pages could be made to work by inserting a <script> element on the background page, but it might be a bit messy.

Ideally I would like to have the content hash as part of the file name for the scripts '[contenthash]-[name].js', but I don't see anything about this accepting webpack output config, paths, or names, or accepting webpack template strings.

Is this possible, or does the script name have to be something that is predetermined?

It seems localized strings in the manifest.json file are erroneously being removed during the "compilation" process.

A source manifest.json file containing the following contents:

{
  "manifest_version": 3,
  "name": "__MSG_extensionName__",
  "description": "__MSG_extensionDescription__",
  "version": "1.0"
}

Results in this invalid manifest.json (note the empty name and description properties):

{
  "manifest_version": 3,
  "name": "",
  "description": "",
  "version": "1.0"
}

However, the expected output is:

{
  "manifest_version": 3,
  "name": "__MSG_extensionName__",
  "description": "__MSG_extensionDescription__",
  "version": "1.0"
}

I haven't done any debugging yet, but a cursory glance leads me to believe the transformManifestValuesFromENV() method introduced in v2.0.1 is the culprit, as the was not an issue in v1.0,0 and earlier.