WXT
How vibe coders and indie builders use WXT: 21 projects shared since May 2026 were built with it, and 2 were built for it.
How to read this
We count the projects builders share on Reddit each week. A project is counted once, in the week it first appears in our sources — that’s not necessarily when it was built or launched. Because some weeks are busier than others, we compare each tool's share of the projects that say what they're built with, not raw counts, so a busy week doesn't make everything look like it's growing. “Up 70%” means a tool turns up in 70% more of those projects than before. In the Sep 28 – Oct 4 edition, the last 4 weeks are Sep 7 – Oct 4, compared with the previous 8 weeks, Jul 13 – Sep 6; the last 12 weeks are Jul 13 – Oct 4.
Projects built with it
21
Share of stated stacks, last 4 weeks
0.1%
Adjusted trend, last 4 weeks vs previous 8 weeks
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
2
Share of stated stacks, each week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- TypeScript 12
- React 8
- Tailwind CSS 6
- IndexedDB 5
- Dexie 4
- Chrome Storage API 3
- Svelte 3
- Transformers.js (chat or unspecified) 3
What's built with it
Latest projects built with WXT
- Prelook — Shows a floating in-page preview of a link's target on hover, so you can see it before clicking.“I made a browser extension that shows you where a link goes before you click it”
- Chatrove — Indexes Claude chat history locally in the browser and provides full-text search over every message.“I had 131 Claude conversations and no way to search inside them, so I built one”
- CF Analytics Pro — Adds solved-rating charts, tag breakdowns, unsolved-problem tracking, bookmarks and submit auto-fill to Codeforces profile pages.“I built a browser extension that adds analytics to Codeforces profiles”
- Note by Note — Changes the pitch and speed of any browser tab's audio and loops sections for music practice.“Note by Note, open source extension for practicing music along with any tab's audio (pitch, loops, sequences).”
- WhatsApp quick-message extension — Opens a WhatsApp chat for a phone number without saving it to contacts, with number parsing, templates and a local address book.“I built an extension so I'd stop saving one-time WhatsApp numbers to my contacts”
- NZ Accredited Employer Inspector — Checks whether a hiring company on LinkedIn or SEEK is an Immigration New Zealand accredited employer, via an in-page button and a public API.“I built an open-source Chrome extension & public API to check NZ Accredited Employers on LinkedIn & SEEK (WXT, Cloudflare Workers + D1 + R2)”
- Hammy — Takes over the browser screen with a full-page hamster reminder to take scheduled breaks.“i got tired of ignoring break reminders, so i built a hamster that hijacks my screen”
- Tecora — Collects and organizes local copies of chats from Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini into one searchable library with folders and export.“Built a local chrome extension that turns claude/chatgpt/gemini chats into one library”
- PromptSnap — Stores and searches reusable AI prompts locally in a browser extension and syncs them across devices via Chrome storage.“Built a 100% local, no-login prompt manager (PromptSnap) to fix broken clipboard issues in old extensions”
- HotKeyNavigator — Maps custom hotkeys to chained browser actions such as macros, text expansion, DOM clicks, and custom JavaScript.“My extension: keyboard macros, Vim mode, and text expansion — one hotkey chains them all (MV3, local-first)”
- Cliptych — Turns highlighted web page text into LinkedIn carousel slides in a Chrome extension editor.“I got tired of tab-switching to Canva, so I built a Chrome extension that turns highlighted text into LinkedIn carousels”
- AI Email Writer — Generates emails with selectable tone and purpose and inserts them into Gmail and LinkedIn compose fields.“I built an AI email writer that lives inside Gmail and LinkedIn — no tab switching needed”
- Last Short — Limits daily YouTube Shorts viewing time, with scheduled limits and a focus mode that hides Shorts entirely.“Last Short: an extension that helps reduce doomscrolling on Youtube Shorts”
- Lancer — Creates, saves and downloads PDF invoices, quotes and receipts from a Chrome toolbar extension, storing all data locally in the browser.“I built a Chrome extension that creates PDF invoices, quotes and receipts”
- ctrlQuery — Highlights passages on webpages and PDFs that match a query by meaning, plus color-coded keyword and pattern search.“I built an on-device semantic search extension, basically a smarter Ctrl+F. Tt understands what you mean, not just what you type.”
Latest add-ons built for WXT
- extport — Publishes browser extensions to four stores from one CI step, validates packages against each store, sells lifetime licenses via Stripe, and shows combined weekly usage stats.“Got tired of juggling four store consoles for my extensions, so I built my own publishing tool”
- chrome-extension-builder — Scaffolds, validates, and prepares Chrome MV3 extensions for Web Store submission as a Claude Code plugin.“Tool for scaffolding, validating, and prepping MV3 extensions for Web Store submission”
Pitched as alternatives to WXT
- Building a Chrome Extension… — Provides an opinionated React framework that generates browser extension surfaces, manifests, messaging, and builds from file-based conventions.“Building a Chrome Extension framework for React”
- Extro — Provides a Next.js-style framework for building Chrome extensions, generating Manifest V3 files from file-based conventions.“Another framework for building Chrome extensions”