Reviews of React Developer Tools

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List of user reviews and ratings for React Developer Tools

Total ratings

4.59 (Rating count: 376)

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Review summary

Users find the React Developer Tools extension powerful and well implemented, expressing excitement about its capabilities. However, multiple users raised concerns about its clipboard write permissions due to security implications. Additionally, some experienced significant RAM usage, particularly on Linux systems, indicating potential performance issues.

Pros

The extension is powerful and well implemented.
Users are excited about its potential uses in development.

Cons

The extension requires clipboard write permission, raising security concerns among users.
It causes high background RAM usage on some systems (notably Linux).

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Recent rating average: 3.10

All time rating average: 4.59

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Date	Author	Comment
2026-07-02	sa*****	there is no version 7 which exists according to changelog github.com/react/react/blob/main/packages/react-devtools/CHANGELOG.md#react-devtools-changelog does not work in next.js 16
there is no version 7 which exists according to changelog github.com/react/react/blob/main/packages/react-devtools/CHANGELOG.md#react-devtools-changelog does not work in next.js 16
2026-06-25	gi*****

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2026-05-27	Fi*****

2026-01-18	Fi*****	It worked well but hasn't been updated in over a year. The app breaks with the latest React/Next.js libraries due to a bug with params and searchParams in Firefox. There is last 7.1 version in Chrome that works fine. Is Firefox still supported?
It worked well but hasn't been updated in over a year. The app breaks with the latest React/Next.js libraries due to a bug with params and searchParams in Firefox. There is last 7.1 version in Chrome that works fine. Is Firefox still supported?
2025-10-24	Fi*****

2025-07-21	xa*****	I was suspicious of the recent permission update that adds “input data to the clipboard”. I looked it up on GitHub and that is used to show a “copy to clipboard” button in the extension. Note that this gives permission to write to the clipboard, and not to read the clipboard.
I was suspicious of the recent permission update that adds “input data to the clipboard”. I looked it up on GitHub and that is used to show a “copy to clipboard” button in the extension. Note that this gives permission to write to the clipboard, and not to read the clipboard.
2025-07-16	Ni*****	Why this extension in taking clipboard access. I think its a security issue. I have removed this extension
Why this extension in taking clipboard access. I think its a security issue. I have removed this extension
2025-07-15	Fi*****

2025-07-08	Te*****