I wrote a more extensive comment elsewhere, but for basic compiling a browser extension you can also simply use common tooling like rollup [0] where your manife

I wrote a more extensive comment elsewhere, but for basic compiling a browser extension you can also simply use common tooling like rollup [0] where your manifest just points to the rollup generated files [1]. And if you forgo modern frameworks entirely, you can just have everything in one directory and run everything more or less directly from there [2]. As far as I am concerned, the structure and packaging of web extensions isn't what makes them complicated, although it does seem to be what a lot of people get hung up on. The web extension APIs and their interaction is often a bigger challenge. Publishing is also somewhat of a pain to deal with, although that is more the process around it and the lack of communication from both Mozilla and Google about it at times. [0] https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolbox/blob/master/rollup.config.js https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolbox/blo... [1] https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolbox/blob/master/extension/chrome_manifest.json#L31 https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolbox/blo... [2] https://github.com/creesch/readReddit https://github.com/creesch/readReddit