No service worker / background shown in Chrome extensions

[mariusa]

Hi, any suggestions on how to start debugging No service worker / background shown in Chrome extensions?

I've replaced my background with the default, still nothing. The default extension created by WXT does work.

Terminal shows this, after setting debug=true:

⚙ All entrypoints: [ { type: 'background',                                                                                                                          9:25:18 PM
    name: 'background',
    inputPath: '/ext/entrypoints/background.ts',
    outputDir: '/ext/dist/chrome-mv3-dev',
    options:
     { include: undefined, exclude: undefined, persistent: undefined, type: undefined },
    skipped: false },
  { type: 'content-script',
    name: 'content',
    inputPath: '/ext/entrypoints/content/index.ts',
    outputDir: '/ext/dist/chrome-mv3-dev/content-scripts',
    options: { matches: [Array], cssInjectionMode: 'ui' },
    skipped: false },
  { type: 'popup',
    name: 'popup',
    options:
     { browserStyle: undefined,
       exclude: undefined,
       include: undefined,
       defaultIcon: undefined,
       defaultTitle: 'Default Popup Title',
       mv2Key: 'browser_action' },
    inputPath: '/ext/entrypoints/popup/index.html',
    outputDir: '/ext/dist/chrome-mv3-dev',
    skipped: false } ]

Thanks

[mariusa]

This happens as soon as I add chromiumArgs to config:

import { defineConfig } from 'wxt'

export default defineConfig({
    modules: ['@wxt-dev/module-vue'],
    webExt: {
        chromiumArgs: ['--user-data-dir=./.wxt/chrome-data'], // remember browser state between runs
    },

})

[PatrykKuniczak]

@mariusa It's still happening?

[samdenty]

Still happening for me

[PatrykKuniczak]

You need to enable dev mode:

In the right top of the settings page.

Before:

After:

This will be solved and automatically enabled after Aaron bump web-ext to at least 10.2.0, and then we'll have:
mozilla/web-ext#3664