Compare Chrome extensions: Highlight it vs React Developer Tools

Stats Highlight it Highlight it React Developer Tools React Developer Tools
User count 1,812,175+ 4,000,000+
Average rating 4.50 3.98
Rating count 34 1,508
Last updated 2020-07-07 2024-04-18
Size 156.67K 2.52M
Version 1.6.0 5.1.0 (4/15/2024)
Short description
Annotate the Web with highlight tool Adds React debugging tools to the Chrome Developer Tools. Created from revision b566064da on 4/15/2024.
Full summary

Highlight it - is a tool that allows you to annotate parts on any page with color backgrounds. Use one of 24 beautiful color presets.

How to use

  • You should refresh pages before usage if you just installed the extension
  • Highlight it won’t work on chrome internal pages, Chrome Webstore pages. (Restricted by security policy of Google Chrome)

React Developer Tools is a Chrome DevTools extension for the open-source React JavaScript library. It allows you to inspect the React component hierarchies in the Chrome Developer Tools.

You will get two new tabs in your Chrome DevTools: "⚛️ Components" and "⚛️ Profiler".

The Components tab shows you the root React components that were rendered on the page, as well as the subcomponents that they ended up rendering.

By selecting one of the components in the tree, you can inspect and edit its current props and state in the panel on the right. In the breadcrumbs you can inspect the selected component, the component that created it, the component that created that one, and so on.

If you inspect a React element on the page using the regular Elements tab, then switch over to the React tab, that element will be automatically selected in the React tree.

The Profiler tab allows you to record performance information.

This extension requires permissions to access the page's React tree, but it does not transmit any data remotely. It is fully open source, and you can find its source code at https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/master/packages/react-devtools-extensions.