Extensions offer ways to give your users and stakeholders superpowers when interacting with your software, but the APIs can be confusing and it isn’t obvious how to add the tooling for a modern developer workflow. This talk aims to demystify the process of building for Chrome and Firefox.

Discussing the process and challenges of creating Melt UI, alongside some unique benefits that Svelte brings to the table (SvelteKit packaging, preprocessors, actions, etc). Together with a demonstration of the current builders available.

Part of the AttendZen platform is a simple event website builder, where you can drag components onto a preview and edit them, with Svelte updating the preview in realtime. We'll look at a few challenges we ran into when developing this.