How to add extensions into electron app without extracting(app.asar modifications)?

[Jenifer-TheCoder]

Hi there ,special mention to @samuelmaddock

I am trying to add custom extension into any electron application to monitor few DOM-UI properties.

• The way suggested in electron-browser-shell project seems to be,adding below line in main process(Main.js):

extensions.addTab(browserWindow.webContents, browserWindow)

• That is possible only by extracting app.asar file and repackaging it.
• Is there a way to do without extracting the asar file?
• If extracting is the only way, is it possible by some means of preload script so that main process script to be unmodified.
• The purpose here to have chrome-extension getting loaded into electron app and does the required job. Since it is client specific electron app, they might not want us to modify their asar files.

[samuelmaddock]

I don't see it being possible to add support for electron-chrome-extensions without the app author installing and configuring it themselves. The main process script will always need to be modified to initialize the Extensions class.

Also, since you mentioned this is for a client, make sure they've reviewed this project's license as it it will affect any application that integrates with electron-chrome-extensions.

[Jenifer-TheCoder]

Yeah sure, will keep you updated!!