How can I include an unsandboxed extension by default?

[ghost]

Hi! Is there a way to automatically load an unsandboxed extension by default within a fork of TurboWarp, like the ones loaded with ?extension=? I've created an extension that adds multiple savepoints to the browser with IndexedDB and is available either via CDN or as an npm module

My hope is that I can just make one or two line changes to my TurboWarp fork to import from NPM and load it in, or if that's not possible, then importing via the methods that are used to load from URL. Ideally, this would let anyone with a TurboWarp fork to add it to theirs as well with minimal effort

[GarboMuffin]

Some suggestions:

• Add it to the extension library here:

  scratch-gui/src/lib/libraries/extensions/index.jsx

  Lines 373 to 382 in e9348b8

  	{
  	name: 'Gamepad',
  	extensionId: 'Gamepad',
  	extensionURL: 'https://extensions.turbowarp.org/gamepad.js',
  	iconURL: gamepadIcon,
  	description: 'Directly access gamepads instead of just mapping buttons to keys.',
  	tags: ['tw'],
  	incompatibleWithScratch: true,
  	featured: true
  	},

• If for some reason you actually want to load an unsandboxed extension by default, do something similar to this:

  scratch-gui/src/lib/tw-state-manager-hoc.jsx

  Lines 364 to 366 in e9348b8

  	for (const extension of urlParams.getAll('extension')) {
  	this.props.vm.extensionManager.loadExtensionURL(extension);
  	}

• If you're forking scratch-gui anyways, you could just build it into your scratch-vm fork

[ghost]

Wow this is a great response, thanks so much! When you say add to extension library, do you mean create a pull request to add it to yours or just in mine (I can do both but not sure what process is)

[GarboMuffin]

If you want your extension to be available to TurboWarp users, you should submit it to https://github.com/TurboWarp/extensions to list it on the website, and if justified it can be listed in the builtin extension library too

It sounds like you are currently developing something that wants to be independent though, so if that's the case, submitting extensions to us is unnecessary as you can modify https://github.com/TurboWarp/scratch-gui/blob/develop/src/containers/tw-security-manager.jsx to treat extensions from your website as unsandboxed and list the extension in your scratch-gui's builtin extension library

[ghost]

Ok great thanks again! I want to create backwards compatible generative AI extensions that improve workflows, like using StableDiffusion's img2img feature to transform sprites, or ChatGPT for text-to-blocks using scratchblocks syntax...but I'd rather contribute these as separate extensions that anyone can use either with TurboWarp or with their forks

This way the extensions are available to more people. Anyways thank you for the feedback, I'll submit to the extensions in a few days but if it's not a good fit I totally understand

Thanks again!