Document changing the webextension manifest name #1052
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| With the default Web Extension config, the manifest has to be called `manifest.json` (and cannot be just any file with a `json` extension). | ||
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This is the first actual change.
| To make Parcel treat some other file as a manifest apart from `manifest.json`, add a few more lines to the `.parcelrc`: | ||
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| ```json | ||
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| "extends": "@parcel/config-webextension", | ||
| "transformers": { | ||
| "some-other-manifest.json": ["@parcel/transformer-webextension"] | ||
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| "packagers": { | ||
| "some-other-manifest.json": "@parcel/packager-webextension" | ||
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| } | ||
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This is the other change, everything else was caused by Prettier for some reason.
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Turns out this actually doesn't work yet because of this hardcoded name check: |
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Exactly, that will be great.
…On 11/12/2022 3:04 PM, Niklas Mischkulnig wrote:
Turns out this actually doesn't work yet because of this hardcoded
name check:
https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/blob/c3bbe0a6160186f496ca2f9e9bead9376c0522f1/packages/runtimes/webextension/src/WebExtensionRuntime.js#L18
We'll have to change that to just rely on some asset meta property...
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If you stop hard-coding and rely on meta property, the build will go through. However, since the output file name remains the same, it cannot be loaded as a browser extension. I want to convert the file name to |
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@kuroppe1819 using namer? https://parceljs.org/plugin-system/namer |
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