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June 30, 2023
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How to run requestly on Firefox for development purposes

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Requestly development team use WebExtension APIs to build cross platform browser extension. This article is mainly intended for requestly development team to run the requestly source code on firefox.

Install web-ext npm module

 npm install -g web-ext


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

 cd components/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.

Requestly is an Open-Source frontend development platform with essential tooling & integrations that helps frontend developers write, test & debug their code 10x faster. Using Requestly, you can create mock API endpoints, test, validate & override API responses, modify request & response headers, setup redirects (Map local, Map remote) and use Requestly sessions for faster debugging.

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