Let's say I have a JSON file stored within my extension called settings.json. I can get the URL of the file using:
chrome.extension.getURL("settings.json");
But now that I have the URL, how do I actually load the contents of that file so I can JSON.parse it and use it? The reason I'm doing this is that there is a server component, and I want to make deployment and testing on multiple servers easier (dev, staging, production, etc.) Alternatively if there's a way to add custom attributes to the manifest.json and access them, that would also work.