Vue template's newtab ships a broken background-image (source.unsplash.com/random is deprecated)

[kiluazen]

Hi - thanks for create-chrome-ext. The Vue-JS template's newtab page hotlinks the deprecated source.unsplash.com/random endpoint, which Unsplash stopped serving in mid-2024 and now 503s:

• template-vue-js/src/newtab/NewTab.vue L65: background-image: url('https://source.unsplash.com/random');

Every extension scaffolded from this template ships with a broken hero background out of the box.

Two fix options:

1. Replace with a specific https://images.unsplash.com/photo-<id>?w=1600 URL or a small bundled JPG in the template's public/.
2. Scaffold + save a real image as part of the template's README instructions using tteg (no Unsplash API key): uv tool install tteg; tteg save "abstract gradient" ./src/newtab/bg --orientation landscape. Repo: https://github.com/kiluazen/tteg — MIT.

Happy to send a PR if the preferred fix is decided.

• Kushal

[kiluazen]

Just to add context on how widespread this is — I ran a follow-up GitHub code-search and the deprecated endpoint still shows up in ~16,500 files across ~885 unique repos (HTML + JS + TS + Vue + Svelte + Astro combined). Writeup here: https://github.com/kiluazen/tteg/blob/research-note-autark/RESEARCH.md . Not urgent, but if the fix fits your review bandwidth at some point, several of the affected repos are getting visible hits in production.