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How to Make a Chrome Extension: Step-by-Step Guide

Create a Google Chrome extension

Browser extensions can be a great way to put your coding skills to good use and build something that will allow you to do repetitive tasks with just a few clicks. If you want to achieve that, learning how to write a Chrome extension is a great start. In this tutorial, we will show you how to write a Chrome extension that sends browser notifications from a popup menu. We will also use the context menu and data storage APIs to make the most out of it.

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Google Maps JavaScript API Tutorial: Add a Custom Map to Your Website

Google Maps JavaScript API Tutorial

Google Maps helps us every day in navigating our way through roads and finding places in a manner that was unimaginative just a few decades ago. It is not only useful in wayfinding, but we also see many examples of maps used for data visualization, such as how recently many websites are using maps to visualize the spread of COVID-19 throughout the globe. Today, let’s learn how we can use the Google Maps JavaScript API to build custom maps for our websites and applications.

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How to Make Your Plugin Compatible With Gutenberg: Part 2 (Sidebar API)

Make Your Plugin Compatible With Gutenberg - Sidebar API

If you’re trying to make your plugin compatible with Gutenberg, you have a couple of paths that you can/should take – depending on what your plugin does and how it delivers its features to the user. In the first part of this mini-series, we explored Gutenberg’s Block API – which is what most plugins need in terms of Gutenberg-compatibility. This time, we will be exploring another piece of the Gutenberg puzzle – Gutenberg’s Sidebar API.

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