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SE Radio 552: Matt Frisbie on Browser Extensions
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers
Extensions - What's the Communication Medium?
The communication medium for extensions is messaging. It's basically the same concept as a post message that it's this asynchronous messaging and you can open a channel. And then you talked about the service worker, which is a background skip. So I assume there needs to be some kind of communication between the background script and content script. Right. There's also ways for extensions to talk to native software. All done via message passing because the different pieces they will have different exposure to the APIs.
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