plasmo [RFC] Officially Support Safari target

How do you envision this feature/change to look/work like?

When specifying --target=safari-mv3, it should spit out an actual XCode project suitable to be used on Safari

What is the purpose of this change/feature? Why?

Without freedom of choice there is no creativity

(OPTIONAL) Example implementations

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(OPTIONAL) Contact Details

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Sep 25 '22 07:09 louisgv

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/developing_a_safari_web_extension

Nov 21 '22 06:11 louisgv

@ColdSauce according to their sample example - there's a layer of native messaging with the host browser which is interesting. Tho, for the shake of brevity, I wonder how much can we reduce from their example to have the popup sample extension working in Safari?

Nov 21 '22 06:11 louisgv

really looking forward to this wonderful feature!

Nov 23 '22 13:11 tyn1998

really looking forward to this wonderful feature! +1🤖

Nov 24 '22 07:11 wangrongding

I have successfully converted plasmo extension to safari, change the egines config of parcel to "IE 11", build mv2 and then use safari-web-extension-converter, then it works, see this pr337

Dec 14 '22 06:12 process1024

@process1024 AFAIK, the safari converter uses the old MV2 format which is largely deprecated. The latest Safari webkit version support MV3. We should head there eventually imo, but the stop-gaps solution should help extension to move to safari with the provided converter

Dec 15 '22 17:12 louisgv

Having gone through the Safarification process, I don't think Plasmo should include generation of the xcode project in it's build. There are various reasons developers might want control over the xcode project (e.g. altering the native app to display a different message) and it's faster if the project is already there. For an MVP all Plasmo needs to do I think is trigger a custom command after repacking in dev to compile and install the xcode project. It would probably help people to document the required xcode commands as they are poorly documented by apple.

Plasmo could perhaps take care of the one-off generation of the xcode project and modify the default output in some useful ways. Main modifications I found useful: (a) create separate xcode targets for Dev and prod and mv2 and mv3, (b) replace the bundle resources build step with a run script which copies the files from the relevant plasmo build directory, which avoids the need to manually manage resources in the xcode project.

Now if Plasmo could work out a way to update the resources in the installed app package on the fly from the dev server, that would be amazing - no need to recompile/install if the native parts haven't changed.