What does the codebase option mean?

[thomasdavis]

Sorry for naivety but why do I have to link to a .crx file? I though the purpose of this library is to generate one?

[ngyikp]

The codebase option is only used for generating the auto-update XML for self-hosted CRX, you can just ignore it if you don't plan to use that function

https://github.com/oncletom/crx/blob/09a074a633e60bc84ef3036ee7f3aa4be71b91aa/src/crx.js#L278-L292

[thom4parisot]

@ngyikp answer is a good one, thanks :-)

I realize the README is not that clear about it. @thomasdavis how did you stumble on the codebase option? Let us know if you think of something else which would have avoided you stumbling on this issue :-)