Setting up the basic extension structure

In this task we'll create the underlying files required by the extension. All files used by an extension need to reside in the same directory, so we'll set that up and make sure it contains all the files we need.

Prepare for Lift Off

One thing I should point out, although hopefully you'll already have realized – we're going to require the Chrome browser for the duration of this project. If you don't have it installed, which as a web developer you really ought to, if only for testing purposes, get it and install it immediately.

Note

The latest version of Chrome can be downloaded from https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/.

We'll keep all of the files for this project in a single directory, so set one up in the project folder now and call it chrome-extension. The extension will be built from the same base code files as most of the other projects that we've created have been built from; the only difference is that all files will need to be local to...