How It Works

**React Monocle** is a developer tool for generating visual representations of your React app's component hierarchy.

React Monocle parses through your React source files to generate a visual tree graph representing your React component hierarchy. The tree is then displayed along with a live copy of your application. This is done by using your un-minified bundle file to inject wrapper functions around setState calls in order to have our tree display real-time feedback. The rendered tree is synced up to the state(s) of your component using Redux, and as the state of your live app changes, the monocle tree graph will also provide visual feedback of data flow and state changes through the React components.

Setup

IMPORTANT The way we use your bundle file requires so that the bundle is not mangled (ie not minified).

npm install -g react-monocle Navigate to the directory which contains your html file. Type in monocle -h in order to find what options suit your needs the best. The only required option is specifying the bundle.

Options

Option Command Description Bundle --bundle (-b) Required Path to React bundle file. HTML --html (-c) HTML page which has your bundle and CSS files. Specify if you want CSS displayed and/or you are relying on external scripts. Entry --entry (-e) App entry point. Defaults to JSX file where ReactDOM.render is found. Directory --directory (-e) directory of React files. Defaults to where Monocle was called. Extension --extension (-j) extension of React files (jsx or js). Defaults to .jsx (only use when specifying/in directory which has your React files!).

Coming Soon

Demo

Quick description of what goes on under the hood.

Improving how we search for components

In the Pipeline

Support for React-Router

Support for Redux

Our Team

Michael-Bryant Choa - github.com/mbchoa

Jenna Davis - github.com/jdavis218

Jerry Mao - github.com/jerrymao15

License

MIT