A Chrome extension that helps debug React applications by memorizing the state of components with every render.
Reactime was nominated for the Productivity Booster award at React Open Source Awards 2020.
Reactime is an open source Chrome developer tool for time travel debugging and performance monitoring in React applications. Reactime enables developers to record snapshots of application state, jump between and inspect state snapshots, and monitor performance metrics such as component render time and render frequency.
Features:
- Record Snapshots of Application State and Accessibility Tree
- Import and Export Snapshots of State
- Time-Travel Debugging
- Snapshot Series Comparison
- Component Tree Visualization
- React Router Compatibility
- Component Render Time & Frequency
- Support for Gatsby, Next.js and Remix
- TypeScript Support
- Ability to Reconnect
- Web Performance Metrics
- Tutorial Walkthrough
- Prop visualization both in color and thickness of the branches of connecting the components
- Heat map bar underneath the top menu
What’s New!
Reactime 25.0 includes a new prop visualization feature and heatmap bar for developers!
We also addressed the previously reported freezing issues on start and brought up the Jest Library in much better condition as it was before; from 20% of the tests working to more than 85% now working correctly.
Some of the UI was rearranged to be more aesthetically pleasing and render the main window bigger for the diplay of the component tree in the process.
https://medium.com/@loganjnelsen/reactime-v25-the-time-to-react-is-now-ace90e45a9c7
Troubleshooting:
Why is Reactime telling me that no React application is found?
Reactime initially runs using the dev tools global hook from the Chrome API. It takes time for Chrome to load this. The current workaround is to navigate to your Chrome Extensions and refresh Reactime. Then, navigate back to your application, refresh the page, and then within the Reactime Dev Tool, right-click and hit "Reload Frame".
Why do I need to have React Dev Tools enabled?
Reactime works in tandem with the React Developer Tools to access a React application's Fiber tree; under the hood, Reactime traverses the Fiber tree through the React Developer Tool's global hook, pulling all relevant information needed to display to the developer
There is a black screen instead of the Reactime extension
Try refreshing the application you want to test and refresh the DevTools by clicking the right mouse button “Reload frame”.
I found a bug in Reactime
Reactime is an open source project, and we'd love to hear from you about improving the user experience. Please read the DEVELOPER README in GitHub and create a pull request (or issue) to propose and collaborate on changes to Reactime.
By default this only our app only injects content scripts into localhost.
If you would like it to run on more websites please go to https://github.com/open-source-labs/reactime. Fork and clone the repository and change
"matches": ["http://localhost/*";] to "matches": ["<all_urls>"] in the manifest.json src\extension\build\manifest.json
Latest reviews
- (2023-10-31) Kelvin Mirhan: Amazing tool. Would highly recommend this to any React Developers out there! Newest updates are very useful..
- (2023-10-26) Andrew Byun: This is a very useful tool to debug React applications! Looking forward to using this!
- (2023-10-25) Jimmy Phy: Such an amazing developer tool that helps me debug my react application so much faster. Looking forward to any new updates that may come.
- (2022-06-21) Carlos Koulatsis: Useful tool but on the latest update it shows a random number on the browser tabs which is very annoying.
- (2022-04-13) Kris Sorensen: Amazing new split feature!
- (2020-12-09) Ronald Paek: Awesome tool
- (2020-12-08) Dylan Hensel: Great extension for React devs. Highly recommend!
- (2020-12-08) Anthony Magallanes: Such a useful extension!! A must download!
- (2020-12-08) Janis Hernandez Aguilar: Awesome tool
- (2020-10-30) Jiří Špác: it started spamming console logs. Maintainers should definitely add eslint rule for no console logs in the codebase
- (2020-10-22) Taven Shumaker: I've started turning to Reactime over the react dev tools extension for time travel debugging. It works well with my react apps and makes debugging complex issues easier. I would reccomend.
- (2020-10-21) Chandni -: Great Chrome Extension!
- (2020-10-21) Brian Hayashi: This is a great tool, really helps with debugging and the visuals are great!
- (2020-09-17) Jinseon Shin: Super useful tool for React developers. Easy to implement and great visualizer!
- (2020-09-13) Alex Jo: Awesome dev tool, very useful for debugging!
- (2020-09-13) Peter Matthews: Heard about this via the Medium article. Great tool, thanks for sharing
- (2020-09-04) alexander landeros: Very useful tool for React!
- (2020-09-04) Alexander Kim: So useful. Such a great tool.
- (2020-09-04) Joal Kim: What a great dev tool! The best part is definitely the data flow visualization. Really cool, and so fast. I'd recommend.
- (2020-09-04) Connor Rose Delisle: Really helpful, and great coverage for Recoil too!
- (2020-09-03) Michelle Holland: Super useful tool, especially the Recoil data flow visualization. So awesome! Definitely recommend to any React developer.
- (2020-09-03) Justin Choo: Awesome dev tool. Really helped me alot debugging my app!!
- (2020-09-03) Spenser Schwartz: This is a great dev tool! For anyone who uses React, you'll do yourself a favor by checking out this extension.
- (2019-11-22) Krisztian Feher: Unfortunately with our large application using antd, redux, class components and a mixture or hooks the extension does absolutely nothing.
- (2019-08-15) Sophie Nye: What a great idea! Super helpful!
- (2019-08-15) Mooyeong Lee: Great developer tool! I loved how easy it was to implement on my existing codebase
- (2019-08-15) Ryan Dang: Nice devtool for any React developer to manage and view state.
- (2019-08-14) Sungtae Kim: wow this is awesome!! as someone new to react, this is a great debugging tool!