⚡ Component Debugger

A modern Chrome extension for debugging React and Vue applications with beautiful visualizations and performance insights.

🎯 Features

• 📊 Visual Component Tree - See your entire component hierarchy at a glance
• 🔍 Smart Search - Quickly find components by name
• ⚛️ React & Vue Support - Toggle between frameworks with one click
• 📈 Performance Monitoring - Track render counts and timing for each component
• 🔎 Deep Inspection - View props, state, and nested data structures
• ⚠️ Performance Warnings - Get alerts for components with high render counts
• 🎨 Modern UI - Sleek dark theme with intuitive navigation

🚀 Installation

From Chrome Web Store (Coming Soon)

1. Visit the Chrome Web Store
2. Click "Add to Chrome"
3. Open your React or Vue app
4. Click the extension icon to start debugging

Manual Installation (Development)

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/component-debugger.git
cd component-debugger

2. Install dependencies:

npm install

3. Build the extension:

npm run build

4. Load in Chrome:
   • Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/
   • Enable "Developer mode" in the top right
   • Click "Load unpacked"
   • Select the build folder from this project

📖 Usage

Getting Started

1. Open the Extension - Click the Component Debugger icon in your Chrome toolbar
2. Select Framework - Choose between React or Vue mode
3. Scan Components - Click the "Scan" button to detect components
4. Explore - Click on any component in the tree to view its details

Component Tree

The left panel shows your application's component hierarchy:

• Expand/Collapse - Click the arrows to navigate nested components
• Select Component - Click any component name to view details
• Search - Use the search bar to filter components by name

Details Panel

The right panel displays detailed information:

• Props - All properties passed to the component
• State - Current state values (React) or data (Vue)
• Performance - Render count and timing information
• Warnings - Alerts for potential performance issues

Performance Insights

Component Debugger helps you identify performance bottlenecks:

• ✅ Green indicator - Component performance is good
• ⚠️ Yellow warning - High render count detected (> 5 renders)
• Render Time - How long each component takes to render
• Render Count - Number of times a component has re-rendered

🎨 Screenshots

Component Tree View

Browse your entire component hierarchy with expandable nodes

Props & State Inspector

Deep dive into component data with syntax-highlighted values

Performance Monitoring

Track render counts and identify performance issues

🛠️ Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js 14+
• npm or yarn
• Chrome browser

Setup

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start development server
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Run tests
npm test

Project Structure

component-debugger/
├── src/
│   ├── components/     # React components
│   ├── utils/          # Helper functions
│   ├── manifest.json   # Chrome extension manifest
│   └── index.js        # Entry point
├── public/             # Static assets
├── build/              # Production build
└── README.md

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Development Guidelines

• Follow the existing code style
• Write clear commit messages
• Add tests for new features
• Update documentation as needed

🐛 Known Issues

• Currently supports client-side rendered apps only
• SSR applications require additional configuration
• Some component names may not display correctly with minified code

📋 Roadmap

• Support for Next.js and Nuxt.js
• Time-travel debugging
• State change history
• Export component data to JSON
• Performance profiling charts
• Custom theme support
• Firefox extension support

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

💬 Support

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions
• Twitter: @SYOP200

🙏 Acknowledgments

• React DevTools for inspiration
• Vue DevTools for architecture ideas
• The open-source community for continuous support

📊 Stats

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