The location of the emptyObject module which React refers to is https://github.com/facebook/fbjs/blob/master/packages/fbjs/src/core/emptyObject.js#L9 Note that it doesn't follow the CommonJS module system.

To make it easier for Facebook to share and consume our own JavaScript. Primarily this will allow us to ship code without worrying too much about where it lives, keeping with the spirit of @providesModule but working in the broader JavaScript ecosystem.

From https://github.com/facebook/fbjs#purpose

The way of defining a module by adding @providesModule in the license header and loading those modules with require in Node is called Haste, a customized module system built for Facebook's open source projects.

In fact, unless you would like to understand the inner workings of React or contribute to Facebook's open source projects, you don't need to know that. In other words, it's not recommended to use Haste to write your own project.

Along the same lines, the invariant module being loaded at line 10 of ReactClass.js is declared at https://github.com/facebook/fbjs/blob/master/packages/fbjs/src/__forks__/invariant.js#L9

As far as I know, both Eclipse and WebStorm don't support Haste so IDE can't help. But with Haste, the name of file and module should be the same, so you can find a module by searching for the filename, i.e. double shift in Webstorm and Ctrl + Shift + r in Eclipse. However, the emptyObject you asked about or invariant are not part of React so it's still cumbersome to find their origin.