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Sebastian Markbåge 36c2bf5c3e [DevTools] Allow all file links in Chrome DevTools to open in external editor (#33985)
Stacked on #33983.

Allow React to be configured as the default handler of all links in
Chrome DevTools. To do this you need to configure the Chrome DevTools
setting for "Link Handling:" to be set to "React Developer Tools". By
default this doesn't do anything but if you then check the box added in
#33983 it starts open local files directly in the external editor.

This needs docs to show how to enable that option.

(As far as I can tell this broke in Chrome Canary 🙄 but hopefully fixed
before stable.)
2025-07-25 10:27:09 -04:00
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This is the source code for the React DevTools browser extension.

Installation

The easiest way to install this extension is as a browser add-on:

Local development

You can also build and install this extension from source.

Prerequisite steps

DevTools depends on local versions of several NPM packages1 also in this workspace. You'll need to either build or download those packages first.

1 Note that at this time, an experimental build is required because DevTools depends on the createRoot API.

To install all necessary dependencies, run the following command from the root of the repository:

yarn install

Build from source

To build dependencies from source, run the following command from the root of the repository:

yarn build-for-devtools

Download from CI

To use the latest build from CI, run the following commands starting from the root of the repository:

cd scripts/release
yarn install
./download-experimental-build.js

Build steps

Once the above packages have been built or downloaded, you can build the extension by running:

cd packages/react-devtools-extensions/

yarn build:chrome # => packages/react-devtools-extensions/chrome/build
yarn run test:chrome # Test Chrome extension

yarn build:firefox # => packages/react-devtools-extensions/firefox/build
yarn run test:firefox # Test Firefox extension

yarn build:edge # => packages/react-devtools-extensions/edge/build
yarn run test:edge # Test Edge extension