How to set up requestly on Firefox using WebExtensionAPI

Introduction

The Requestly development team utilizes WebExtension APIs to construct a cross-platform browser extension. This guide is specifically designed to assist the Requestly development team in running the source code of Requestly on Firefox using Webextensions API Firefox, ensuring a seamless development experience.

Steps

Install web-ext npm module

 npm install -g web-ext

Navigate to browser-extension source code and switch the mode to firefox

 cd browser-extension

grunt select-firefox

Open a new terminal to run firefox with extension installed

cd dist
web-ext run
Use web-ext –help // to get the list of available commands