Question: Comparison w/ similar projects

[brandonmp]

Thanks for this project & the video presentation you did. I'm new to chrome extensions, so your level of documentation/explanation is great--def. best I've found on a project like this.

But on that note I was wondering: can you talk a bit about your motivation for creating this project vice using one of the small # of similar projects? e.g. crossbuilder w/ 'cross-messaging' ?

Asking b/c as a newbie, it's tough to differentiate & wanna make sure i understand which tools fit which projects.

[tshaddix]

Hey @brandonmp ! I'm glad the video is helpful! I'm hoping to get some better docs up in the near future (#5) .

I have never used crossbuilder, but it looks like a really cool project!

I built this project to be a utility more than any sort of build/project system. My main goal was to take as much as a hands-off approach as possible, and let developers still write chrome extensions how they are used to. It looks like crossbuilder is much more oriented towards abstracting the complexities of each of the platform away, which is very impressive. This abstraction comes with the need to include a few dependencies as well as a somewhat strict project structure.

It really comes down to what you're looking for! We've found the react-chrome-redux project very useful at GoGuardian because we only write Chrome Extensions (vs other browsers/platforms) and we wanted to be able to add on and extend our existing code without needing to rewrite the entire extension.

TL;DR; This project is a utility library for "enabling" React+Redux while working in Chrome Extensions while crossbuilder is a full on build/project system for building cross-platform apps.

Once again, I've never used crossbuilder, so my thoughts are completely based off of their README. I hope this helps!