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Zotero 7 Plugin Development Guide

Zotero 7 includes a major internal upgrade of the Mozilla platform on which Zotero is based, incorporating changes from Firefox 60 through Firefox 115. This upgrade brings major performance gains, new JavaScript and HTML features, better OS compatibility and platform integration, and native support for Apple Silicon Macs.

Plugin Architecture

Zotero 7 plugins provide full access to platform internals (XPCOM, file access, etc.) using a bootstrapped plugin architecture. Plugins can be enabled and disabled without restarting Zotero.

Plugin Components

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Chromium on Vercel (serverless)

This is an up-to-date guide on running Chromium in Vercel serverless functions in 2022. What you will read below is the result of two days of research, debugging, 100+ failed deployments, and a little bit of stress.

Getting started

Step 1: Install dependencies

Use chrome-aws-lambda that comes with Chromium pre-configured to run in serverless, and puppeteer-core due to the smaller size of Chromium distributive.