Chrome Extension for developers to test local apps on real phones.📲

Important! - It will be soon available on chrome extensions store, i need to wait for app approval.

There are times when you need to test your app on real phones but you didn't deploy your site on the server so you can see it on your real device. We all know one option, you need to find your local ip address and port that your app is running and manually write it in your phone browser, that can be hard sometimes because example you have big url query or you need to test different urls etc...

In these situation this chrome extension come in game, when you are on you desired page localhost or some other url you just press it and it will generate QR code that u scan with your phone and bum 🎉 it open on your phone exactly like on your machine.

Features

1. It uses Crome extension react boilerplate
2. Used react to write extension.
3. Use react QR package

Installing and Running

Procedures:

1. Check if your Node.js version is >= 14.
2. Clone this repository.
3. Run npm install to install the dependencies.
4. Run npm start
5. Load your extension on Chrome following:
   1. Access chrome://extensions/
   2. Check Developer mode
   3. Click on Load unpacked extension
   4. Select the build folder.
6. Happy hacking.

Webpack auto-reload and HRM

To make your workflow much more efficient this boilerplate uses the webpack server to development (started with npm start) with auto reload feature that reloads the browser automatically every time that you save some file in your editor.

You can run the dev mode on other port if you want. Just specify the env var port like this:

$ PORT=6002 npm run start

Packing

After the development of your extension run the command

$ NODE_ENV=production npm run build

Now, the content of build folder will be the extension ready to be submitted to the Chrome Web Store. Just take a look at the official guide to more infos about publishing.