Access the webpage from your extension (Manifest Version 3) — When writing Chrome extensions, making sure your extension can interact with the webpage in some way can be very important. So how can it be done? In this post, I’ll show you how to include what’s called a content script in your extension, and how to make it communicate with…

Aggregate all links in a blog post with the click of a button — As someone who writes pretty regularly on Medium, I often draw a lot of my insights and support for my articles from sources beyond my own writing. Because of this, I always include a References section of my articles where you can see all the links used within my article.

Chrome Extension: New tab, who dis? — I am working on a Chrome extension that I plan to integrate with a React project that I made previously. The goal of this extension was to capture site data when the user clicks the extension icon. Once the data is captured, persist that data in a newly opened tab…

No need to gather ALL elements, just the nested ones — I was working on some Tumblr logic for an update to my Chrome extension, Link Sweep, and was working on the part where I gather all of the links on a webpage. The problem with Tumblr is that they don’t really differentiate the links (a tags) in the post modal…

Which one should you use and when? — I’ve been working on a Chrome extension lately that was just published! The extension, LinkSweep, makes use of a content script that will need to access the webpage of the current window. This content script will be used to collect data from the webpage via the Document Object Model. What is the DOM? As…

The solution was right under my nose — As a React Native Developer, you’re probably no stranger to a myriad of errors in either your command line, or the app itself. You know the ones. The dramatic red menus that pop up and yell at you for something you missed. The ones that immediately invoke panic and distress…

Your Very First JavaScript Problem (And How to Solve It) — I recently answered a question on Quora where a user stated the below quandary. I am learning JavaScript bus[sic] failing exercises. What should I do? Upon answering this question, I realized that after all of the writing I’ve done over the years, I never posted a truly barebones example of…

The “Logical AND” Operator — In a previous post, I wrote about how to effectively match multiple conditions in regex and show you how to write a regular expression that can contain multiple conditions — allowing you to match multiple things. See the code from the post below. const line = 'My name is Matthew…

A Workaround for Manifest Version 3 — I was working on a Chrome extension that included a popup and a content script; making use of action.onClicked. The behavior I was expecting was the user clicking the icon in the extensions bar. Then the click event would open the popup, trigger the content script and allow the user…