How Extension Docs Are Served

The documentation for Chrome extensions and apps is served at developer.chrome.com/extensions and developer.chrome.com/apps by Google App Engine.

See https://cs.chromium.org/chrome/common/extensions/docs/README to learn how the extension/app docs are generated.

Contributing documentation

Have you found an error in the documentation? Either submit a patch (see below) or file a bug with label Cr-Platform-Extensions at the the issue tracker.

1. Check out Chromium's source code, see Get the Code: Checkout, Build, Run & Submit (gclient runhooks is optional for this purpose).
2. Find the relevant file that you need to edit (e.g. by visiting cs.chromium.org and pasting a quoted snippet from the page that you want to edit).
3. To view the documentation locally, run src/chrome/common/extensions/docs/server2/preview.py (this will serve the documentation at http://localhost:8888, add -p [port] to serve on a different port).
4. After updating the documentation, upload the patch to codereview.chromium.org (see also: Contributing Code).
5. Others can preview your changes by visiting https://chrome-apps-doc.appspot.com/_patch/*[issue id]*/extensions/ (or /apps/).