react-transform-debug-inspector

This is a development tool that adds an interactive inspector panel to your React components while you're building and testing. Think of it like opening your browser's developer tools, but built specifically to let you peek inside individual React components—seeing their props, state, and other internal data—without writing any extra code.

Here's how it works. When you're developing a React app, this tool hooks into your build process (specifically a Babel plugin called babel-plugin-react-transform) and automatically wraps your components with inspector capabilities. As you're running your app locally, you can trigger the inspector with a keyboard shortcut (by default, Command+1) to reveal a panel that shows you what data a component is holding at any given moment. You can customize what the inspector displays—add your own panels beyond the default ones, decide which components should be inspectable, and control when the inspector turns on and off.

The main audience would be React developers who want faster feedback loops during development. Instead of adding console.log statements or jumping into the browser console to debug, you can instantly see a component's props, state, and context in a structured, visual format right in your app. It's particularly useful when you're trying to understand why a component isn't behaving as expected or when you're exploring unfamiliar code.

The README itself notes that this feels "more of a demo than a real thing," which suggests it was created as a proof of concept or learning project rather than a polished, production-ready library. The README doesn't go into extensive detail about all its capabilities, but the configuration example shows it's quite flexible—you can write custom code to define what information appears, which components get the inspector, and how to toggle it on and off. Because it requires modifying your Babel configuration and is tied to the development build process, it's only meant to be used locally while coding, not in production.