Better support for auto-reload in Firefox

Auto reloads sorta worked in Firefox but with caching issues, and sometimes the page not reloading. This release fixes those issues making Firefox a lot better for active development. We were able to fix this by refreshing the tabs from the background page. We grab all the pages that have a connection to the background and refresh them. 💫 Just make sure to pass the vendor to the build and all this should work.

New loading animation

This release is a small one and just makes the experience of using this reloader a little nicer, and adds an animation that is similiar to the loader which NextJS uses.

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Initial release

Description

webpack-browser-extension-plugin initial release. This plugin allows for a couple useful things.

• Auto reload extension, for a number of scenerios
• Allows for compiling of the manifest to be in webpack pipeline.
• Reloading on the addition of locales

These are some intial features that out of the box do quite a bit. Future plans to include things like.

• Copy, reloading for assets, and pages.
• HMR and shortly after React refresh.
• Webpack 5 support.

This is my first webpack plugin, and feedback more then welcome.