We Built a Chrome Extension With Clean Architecture. Here's Why It Was Worth the Extra Effort.

Most Chrome extension tutorials show you a popup with a counter. Click a button, increment a number, done. That's fine for learning the API. But what if your extension needs OAuth with PKCE, multi-tenant team switching, content script injection into arbitrary web pages, offline detection, session refresh via background alarms, and role-based access control? We built a Chrome extension for PaperLink - a document sharing and analytics platform. The extension lets you create secure share links for