Publish Browser Extension

Publish an extension to all the extension stores in a single command!

https://github.com/aklinker1/publish-browser-extension/assets/10101283/b0e856ca-4e26-4c7e-9ff8-c900e203cab5

Features

- Publish to the Chrome Web Store, Firefox Addon Store, and Edge Addon Store
- Helper script to generate secrets and configure options
- Upload sources ZIP to the Firefox Addon Store

> [!IMPORTANT]
>
> You are responsible for uploading and submitting an extension for the first time by hand. publish-browser-extension does not provide tools for creating a new extension.

Install

``sh
npm i -D publish-browser-extension
pnpm i -D publish-browser-extension
bun i -D publish-browser-extension
`

CLI Usage

To get started, run the init command. It will walk you through generating all the necessary environment variables/CLI flags, saving them to a .env.submit file:

`sh
publish-extension init
`

> All CLI flags can be passed as environment variables instead. For example, setting the CHROME_CLIENT_ID environment variable is equivalent to passing --chrome-client-id. Just convert the flag to UPPER_SNAKE_CASE.

Then, just run the submit command, passing the ZIP files you want to submit:

`sh
publish-extension \
--chrome-zip dist/chrome.zip \
--firefox-zip dist/firefox.zip --firefox-sources-zip dist/sources.zip \
--edge-zip dist/chrome.zip
`

publish-extension will automatically look for a .env.submit file and load it if it exists.

JS Usage


`js
import { publishExtension } from 'publish-browser-extension';

publishExtension({
dryRun: true,
chrome: {
zip: 'dist/chrome.zip',
extensionId: '',
clientId: '',
clientSecret: '',
refreshToken: '',
publishTarget: '',
skipSubmitReview: false,
},
firefox: {
zip: 'dist/firefox.zip',
sourcesZip: 'dist/sources.zip',
extensionId: '',
jwtIssuer: '',
jwtSecret: '',
channel: '',
},
edge: {
zip: 'dist/chrome.zip',
productId: "",
clientId: "",
apiKey: "",
skipSubmitReview: false,
},
})
.then(results => console.log(results))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
`

Contributing

$3

1. Install bun
2. Install dependencies
`sh
bun i
`
3. Run the init command to generate a .env.submit file for testing
`sh
bun publish-extension init
`
> [!WARNING]
>
> Make sure to set the Firefox channel to "unlisted", chrome's publish target to "trustedTesters", and don't submit the extension for review for Chrome or Edge. This will prevent you from accidentally releasing one of the test extensions publicly.
4. Run the dev commands to upload a test extension to the stores:
`sh
bun dev:all
bun dev:chrome
bun dev:firefox
bun dev:edge
``