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API Availability and Messaging

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This chapter describes the various ways in which scripting components can interact with each other using the messaging APIs provided by the Google Chrome Extensions framework. In addition to this, you will also learn how ordinary web pages can interact with an extension. Plus, you will also examine the usage of many useful APIs provided by the Extensions framework. But before all of this, first you will learn about the remaining input components.

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Mehta, P. (2016). API Availability and Messaging. In: Creating Google Chrome Extensions. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1775-7_3

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