Autoreload JS file alone

[zurfyx]

First of all, your boilerplate looks really good! 👍

However, in a specific case I am required to load some JavaScript even before the page is rendered. Thus, making background.html unsuitable.

  "content_scripts": [{
    "js": ["page-load.bundle.js"],
    "matches": ["<all_urls>"],
    "run_at": "document_start",
    "all_frames": true
  }],

According to the chrome extension documentation I can use nothing but JS and CSS files

How would you do it in this case?

Webpack compilation was simply about adding a new entry "page-load": path.join(__dirname, "src", "js", "page-load.js") but I don't see how to make the extension get this latest version of the .js file without having to reload the extension (or if there are better ways to do this).

[samuelsimoes]

If I understood your problem, AFIY there's no way to automatic reload injected scripts except to reload the whole extension. I know, it's a shame.

Besides that, you must read the content scripts section in the readme before start using content scripts.

[samuelsimoes]

Closing. I think it's resolved.

[howardya]

@zurfyx please refer to my comment here for hot reloading content script.