Is there a way to make a google chrome extension require another extension?

[Spikechrisgaming]

Is there a way to make a google chrome extension require another? As one of my google chrome extensions needs another extension to work.

[PhistucK]

I know the Android runtime (or applications ported from Android to Chrome) does that, so there might be an undocumented API for it (it is a manifest key). Perhaps it is only supported in Chrome applications and not extensions, though.

☆PhistucK

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Spikechrisgaming <spikec...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to make a google chrome extension require another? As one of my google chrome extensions needs another extension to work.

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[Teddy Garland]

You can use management (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/management) to check the IDs of the extensions that are installed to make sure that the parent extension is installed an enabled. the onEnabled and onDisabled event listeners would be helpful too. If the parent extension isn't enabled, then you could display some sort of error message through the child extension.

[Spikechrisgaming]

How would i use that? 

[Teddy Garland]

In background script of the child extension, use chrome.management.get("YOUR_EXTENSION_ID", callback)

within the callback verify that your parent extension is there. if it is not then don't execute your child extension scripts.