What are Chrome apps vs plugins vs extensions and how to develop them

Question

I am trying to understand about Chrome (browser) development. I am very new to this and trying to figure out where to start in order to develop for Chrome Browser.

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Answer 1

To answer your first question this explains the differences between apps and extensions (I think there's no better way to explain their nature): https://developers.google.com/chrome/web-store/articles/apps_vs_extensions

What do you mean with "what kind of apps"? You can develop both hosted and packaged apps if is that what you intended, give a look at this: https://developers.google.com/chrome/apps/docs/index

Anyway the easiest way to start would be by building an extension, how-tos and good documentation makes it good to start with:

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted.html