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1. A MUST for best understanding and developing extensions
   While listed as an intermediate level resource, I must say that as a fledgling developer this book comes down to my level and gets me deep in technical aspects of browser extensions. As with many of other Matt Frisbie’s books, this one styles itself as informative and robust but never strays away from the no-nonsense approach to developing applications.Heck, early on it opens itself in a crash course take on browser extensions then diving into the nitty gritty of troubleshooting the back and front end. There’s plenty of use cases highlighted and a lot of industry level best practices offered. I especially enjoyed the highlighting of common gotchas and how to mitigate them.Overall, there’s some resources online and sure you can ctrl+f the information, but Building Browser Extension is a one stop shop that I don’t have to scour out of date Stackoverflow posts for the right answers.

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2. Excellent introduction and comprehensive reference for developing web extensions
   This is the long-missing book on an important topic that historically has had surprisingly (and frustratingly) meager online documentation scattered around various forums, blog posts, and StackOverflow posts. The author has pulled together a thoughtful, technical book that is both an intuitive guide to getting started building extensions from a traditional web development background, as well as a handy reference for all the various manifest properties and permissions that make web extension programming particularly painful. The companion code samples on Github are easily cloneable and readable. Top marks for including walkthroughs on common use-cases like OAuth.If you are doing anything with web extensions this book is basically a must-have.

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3. Phenomenal browser extension reference
   ABSOLUTELY worth the buy. It’s an exceptional reference to build out browser extensions with modern frameworks. This one references modern technology such as react/vue, and is current. I’m so tired of seeing out of date guides, which is what sets this one apart from the others. I’ll be using this as a permanent goto reference in the future. Every dev should have this in their back pocket. So lucky to have found this.

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4. Great reference book!
   I’ve authored several Chrome extensions over my career and this book does a fantastic job explaining some of the nuances with other browsers. Recently, iOS has gained the ability to run extensions and this book does a fantastic job at walking you through building one step by step.Highly recommend!

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5. Solid reference
   This book is thoughtfully organized in such a way that it’s a helpful step-by-step guide for building an deploying an extension as well as a convenient reference for the extension API and permissions. I found the chapter explaining the differences between manifest v2 and v3 especially enlightening.

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6. Thorough and informative
   Thorough and informative, with lots of code examples and visuals throughout. The book walks you through how to build modern web extensions in a practical, results-focused way. Easy to read, well organized, no-nonsense and to the point. Thanks Mr. Frisbie!

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7. I’ve not found another book on this topic even close to as well done.
   There are very few books or other resources on this topic and, thankfully, even if there were this one would likely still be amongst the best. May get dated a little quickly as some browser internals are changing in important ways across, really, all browsers.

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8. Well written, pretty thorough, easy to learn from
   The book is easy to follow and very helpful for learning how browser extensions work. Unfortunately the changes that come with Manifest V3 severely limit the usefulness of browser extensions, at least for the purposes I was hoping to use them for. A book like this would have been more useful a few years ago when browser extensions were allowed to be more powerful.

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9. Me gusta la claridad en la autor a la hora de transmitir las ideas con ejemplos sencillos y referenciando a la nube hacia los sitios donde puedes ampliar información acerca de los componentes de software. Yo lo he adquirido para poder hacer una extensión y me ha ayudado a terminarla en un plazo de tiempo increíble.

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