How to keep chrome.sidePanel open during hot-reload

[driuqzy]

My extension is primarily a chrome.sidePanel, and hot reload causes the side panel to close, requiring me to re-open it after each hot reload.

Any way to keep it open?

[isaurssaurav]

@driuqzy
This could be really nice addition to this plugin. I also did face small hindrance when i was working with the pop-up too.

Maybe I will add the config param keepSidePanelOpen

hotReloadExtension({
      log: true,
      backgroundPath: 'path/to/background',
      keepSidePanelOpen: true,
      keepSidePopupOpen: true
})

OR

keep the state of sidePanel in memory.

I will work on it.

[isaurssaurav]

I looked into it and it is not possible to open sidepanel programmatically.

I would suggest you have shortcut command to open sidepanel for easier development. Thats, the only thing i can refer with this plugin at the moment.

But, I am still open to looking into it further.

[danielsussa]

guys, look this solution that I created. I've been working on a side panel and this way helped me a lot:
https://github.com/danielsussa/chrome-sidepanel-hotreload

[GregoryBai]

@danielsussa Thanks, Daniel!

This is really helpful.

I did combine your sidepanel's code with this repo's code, and it works!

Will try to do a small PR!

[isaurssaurav]

@GregoryBai Thanks for PR 👍 . I will look into it.