Simplify your customer’s entry point.

This tutorial uses a boiler-plate Google Chrome Extension setup.

If you want to know how to get that setup,
Check out my write-up here:

Or the video tutorial here:

This tutorial also uses a ‘Passwordless Authentication Server’ built with NodeJS and Express.
Check out my write-up here:

Or the video tutorial here:

Let’s Begin.

We’ll start with creating a page that allows the user to ‘sign in’ with their email address.

Note:
We’ve attached a script that we’ll get to later.

We’ll also have a ‘sign out’ page.

Note:
We’ve attached a script that simply messages our ‘background.js’ script and signs the user out.

Let’s write our ‘manifest.json’.

{
    "name": "",
    "description": "",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "manifest_version": 2,
    "icons": {
        "16": "./obj-16x16.png",
        "32": "./obj-32x32.png",
        "48": "./obj-48x48.png",
        "128": "./obj-128x128.png"
    },
    "background": {
        "scripts": [
            "./background.js" …