Use with React and Browser apps and chrome extensions

Please could it make clear in the documentation whether this api can be used with React in a Browser in a standard webapp or Chrome extensions?

There is this bug report which appears to indicate that it can be used:

https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client/issues/1614

There is the alternative google-api-javascript-client library but it is not published in the npm registry and it doesn't look that it is possible to do this:

https://github.com/google/google-api-javascript-client/issues/432