How Bloomberg Built a Talent Sourcing Chrome Extension Using React
summary
Bloomberg builds a working Chrome extension in React that auto‑responds in Gmail and stores private notes, using Material UI for layout and Create React App with custom build tweaks, Manifest V3, side panel only on Gmail and activeTab plus host permissions. Content scripts and a vanilla service worker handle DOM actions and browser events, with message passing and a helper sendRequest so that background fetch via service worker avoids CORS errors. The demo shows composed responses populated and sent successfully.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:56Why Bloomberg built extension
- 3:39Setting up React extension
- 5:46Extension architecture
- 8:54Calling services with fetch
- 10:00Live demo
- 10:45Q&A
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