wxt/docs/get-started/compare.md

Compare

Lets compare the features of WXT vs Plasmo (another framework) and CRXJS (a bundler plugin).

Overview

Features	WXT	Plasmo	CRXJS
Supports all browsers	✅	✅	🟡 10
MV2 Support	✅	✅	🟡 1
MV3 Support	✅	✅	🟡 1
Create Extension ZIPs	✅	✅	❌
Create Firefox Sources ZIP	✅	❌	❌
First-class TypeScript support	✅	✅	✅
Entrypoint discovery	✅ 2	✅ 2	❌
Inline entrypoint config	✅	✅	❌ 9
Auto-imports	✅	❌	❌
Supports all frontend frameworks	✅	🟡 3	✅
Framework specific entrypoints (like Popup.tsx)	🟡 4	✅ 5	❌
Automated publishing	✅	✅	❌
Remote Code Bundling (Google Analytics)	✅	✅	❌
Dev Mode
.env Files	✅	✅	✅
Opens browser with extension installed	✅	❌	❌
HMR for UIs	✅	🟡 6	✅
Reload HTML Files on Change	✅	🟡 7	✅
Reload Content Scripts on Change	✅	🟡 7	✅
Reload Background on Change	🟡 7	🟡 7	🟡 7
Respects Content Script run_at	✅	✅	❌ 8
Built-in Utils
Storage	✅	✅	❌ 11
Messaging	❌ 11	✅	❌ 11
Content Script UI	✅	✅	❌ 11

¹: Either MV2 or MV3, not both.
²: File based.
³: Only React, Vue, and Svelte.
⁴: .html .ts .tsx.
⁵: .html .ts .tsx. .vue .svelte.
⁶: React only.
⁷: Reloads entire extension.
⁸: ESM-style loaders run asynchronously.
⁹: Entrypoint options all configured in `manifest.json`.
¹⁰: As of v2.0.0-beta.23, but v2 stable hasn't been released yet.
¹¹: There is no built-in wrapper around this API. However, you can still access the standard APIs via chrome/browser globals or use any 3rd party NPM package.