Before Start to Develop Chrome Extensionsd

When to reload the extension

The following table shows which components need to be reloaded to see changes:

Extension component	Requires extension reload
The manifest	Yes
Service worker	Yes
Content scripts	Yes (plus the host page)
The popup	No
Options page	No
Other extension HTML pages	No

Find console logs and errors

Console logs

During development, you can debug your code by accessing the browser console logs.
Right click the popup html, then you can check the console message just like develop the web.

Structure an extension project

There are many ways to structure an extension project; however, the only prerequisite is to place the manifest.json file in the extension’s root directory.