@i-rocky/webext-bridge

webext-bridge, except with sidepanel and offscreen support

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Introduction

Messaging in web extensions made easy. Batteries included. Reduce headache and simplify the effort of keeping data in sync across different parts of your extension. webext-bridge is a tiny library that provides a simple and consistent API for sending and receiving messages between different parts of your web extension, such as background, content-script, devtools, popup, options, and window contexts.

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