@wxt-dev/browser

Provides access to the browser or chrome extension APIs and related types.

import { browser, Browser } from '@wxt-dev/browser';
// Or if you're using WXT:
// import { browser, Browser } from 'wxt/browser';

console.log(browser.runtime.id);

const onMessage = (message: any, sender: Browser.runtime.MessageSender) => {
  console.log(message);
};
browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(onMessage);

Installation

If you're using WXT, this package is already installed, you don't need to install it manually.

Otherwise, you can install the package from NPM:

pnpm install @wxt-dev/browser

Upgrading to Latest Types

Just run:

pnpm upgrade @wxt-dev/browser

This should update both the manually installed version and the subdependency inside WXT.

Contributing

Code Generation

Types are generated based on the @types/chrome package, and with modifications specifically for use with WXT.

Updating @types/chrome Version

You don't need to do anything! A github action is ran every day to generate and publish this package using the latest @types/chrome version.

You can manually generate types via:

pnpm gen

Why not just use @types/chrome?

With WXT, you must import the browser variable to use the extension APIs. The way @types/chrome is implemented forces you to define a global chrome variable. With WXT, this isn't acceptable, we don't want to pollute the global (type) scope or introduce conflicts with auto-imports.

Additionally, WXT overrides types to provide additional type safety for some APIs, like browser.runtime.getURL and browser.i18n.getMessage. With @types/chrome's nested namespace approach, it's not possible to override the types for those functions.