CEF and Chome extensions

[dmklementiev]

Could you please suggest what would be the right way to start with enabling chrome extensions in CEF? I would like to try something simple like "chrome://extensions -> Load unpacked" in Chrome and use background.js that injects contentScript.js.

[amaitland]

Start by reading https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/ ... extensions

Only a subset of the Chrome extension API is supported.

[dmklementiev]

Thank you amaitland. I've done some reading and have a few questions:

1. Is it correct that I cannot use my background JS and need to write corresponding code in c/c++ using provided CEF APIs?
2. I am using WebSocket to communicate between an extension and my backend. implementing WebSocket in JS is trivial. Do I need to use a client written in c/c++ for such communication. I have implemented both client and server, so just trying to understand the correct approach.
3. Is there any sample for implementing an extension for CEF?

Thanks again!

[dmklementiev]

just bumping it up in case somebody can share the knowledge : )

[Gu5a90]

Marshall Greenblatt quote:
"Chrome extensions are unlikely to be supported in the future."

you can check this out:
https://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10242
there's links to CEF-forum topic of how to implement an extension system in your own application using JS bindings.

I'll be glad if someone can share some basic impl of how to fetch an extension source code and bind it as shown in those snippets.