Action Locales

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Action Popup (i18n / Locales) Example

Adds a toolbar popup whose text follows your browser's language.

What you'll see: A toolbar popup that opens when you click the extension's icon.

How it works: The manifest registers an action and points default_popup at a JavaScript page bundled from src/action/.

Demonstrates the _locales/ directory and chrome.i18n.* APIs. The popup pulls strings from the user's active locale; add another _locales/<lang>/messages.json to localize.

Try it locally

npx extension@latest create my-action-locales --template action-locales
cd my-action-locales
npm install
npm run dev

A fresh browser window opens with the extension already loaded.

Project layout

src/
├── action/
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── scripts.js
│   └── styles.css
├── images/
│   └── icon.png
├── background.js
└── manifest.json

Commands

Cloned this repo instead? The examples ship without npm scripts, so run Extension.js directly from the example directory. Run npm install first when the example declares dependencies.

dev

Run the extension in development mode. Target a browser with --browser:

npx extension@latest dev .                  # Chromium (default)
npx extension@latest dev . --browser=chrome
npx extension@latest dev . --browser=edge
npx extension@latest dev . --browser=firefox

build

Build for production:

npx extension@latest build .                # Chromium (default)
npx extension@latest build . --browser=firefox
npx extension@latest build . --browser=edge

preview

Preview the production build with the bundled browser:

npx extension@latest preview .

Tests

This template ships an end-to-end check (template.spec.ts) validated by the examples-repo CI on every commit.

Learn more

• Extension.js docs
• Templates index
• GitHub: extension-js/extension.js