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Chrome extensions feel like the bash scripting of the 21st century. But as a primarily backend developer I'm learning Javascript at the same time I'm learning the browser at the same time I'm learning Chrome internals. This looks like it would really help with the latter 2.

Having just slogged through my second extension I could have really used this 2 months ago. Kudos

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I feel you, for those reasons I ended up creating a [template](https://github.com/AlexITC/chrome-scalajs-template) for building browser extensions with scalajs, if typed languages are your way, I suggest you to give a try.

Thank you! Chrome extensions are definitely a great way to get familiar with Chrome's APIs and what's possible in the browser, as well as Javascript in general. I think the boilerplate and setup is a big barrier to entry for a lot of people since it seems quite tedious at first glance, so that was a big driving factor in creating this.

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