Fullstack Extensions – Chrome Extension Mastery: Build Full-Stack Extensions with React & Node.js 2025-2

Apr 18, 2025 - 18:56

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Chrome Extension Mastery: Build Full-Stack Extensions with React & Node.js, Master the art of building production-ready, full-stack Chrome Extensions using modern web technologies and best practices. Learn how to build a powerful, feature-rich extension that seamlessly integrates with a separate React UI and communicates with a shared Node.js API. This project-based course guides you through building a functional Chrome extension with a modern tech stack. We’ll dive into advanced Chrome Extension concepts, set up permissions and authentication, structure a secure & scalable API with Node.js, and design a user-friendly React interface. By the end, you’ll have a polished extension to showcase and the skills to build / deploy full-stack Chrome extensions for any project or client. In this course, we’ll build a feature-rich Chrome extension inspired by Pocket, where users can save, update, delete, and tag links for easy organization and retrieval. This full-stack project includes both frontend and backend development: a UI and extension both built with React, as well as a Node.js/Express backend API with MongoDB for managing link storage, updates, and retrieval. Users will also be authenticated at all 3 levels. We’ll follow best practices for building scalable, maintainable UIs and APIs, and the extension component will incorporate advanced design patterns like authentication, preparing you to build sophisticated, production-ready extensions on your own.

What you’ll learn

Building a UI using React and an API using Node.js / Express
Building a Chrome Extension that communicates with the UI and API
User authentication at the extension, UI, and API level
Advanced extension developement concepts (such as injecting React apps into webpages via Content Scripts)
Leveraging numerous Chrome Extension APIs (Actions API, Tabs API, and more) to create a seamless user experience
Deploying and publishing extensions, UIs, and APIs

Who this course is for

This course is perfect for developers of various skill levels wanting to dive into full-stack Chrome extension development. With a basic understanding of JavaScript (and ideally React), frontend, backend, and full-stack developers can tackle this hands-on, practical course.