Chrome Extension Development: Build 3 Chrome Extensions

You will learn how to build and publish three Chrome Extensions in this course. We will build the all three projects together, and you will get hands–on experience with developing Chrome Extensions.

The extensions you will be building are as follows:

Minimalist Stack Overflow Theme – A minimalist style theme that will simplify the layout of Stack Overflow.

Link Scraper – An extension that downloads all the links on a webpage.

New Tab Quote Generator – Displays a random quote every time you open a new tab in Chrome.

These three Chrome Extensions will provide a great foundation and starting point for learning Chrome Extension development.

Chrome Extension development can be an intimidating topic to learn. But we will start with with the very basics, and walk through lessons step–by–step with hands–on content.

We will go through the Chrome Extension documentation, and discuss topics such as:

Content Scripts – How to use CSS and JavaScript files to update the styling and layout of a page.

Background Scripts – How to run a script in the background using a Chrome Extension.

Web–Scraping – How to search for and download content from a webpage.

Overriding Pages – How to override the default functionality of various pages.