vite-react-quick-fix-plugin

A lightweight Vite plugin that enhances React development workflow by adding quick-access editor buttons to your components during development.

Github: https://github.com/LaymanTeam/Vite-React-Quick-Fix-Plugin

🚀 Features

• Adds a hover-activated "Open in Editor" button to React components in development
• Alt + Click to quickly jump to component source files
• Automatically detects React components
• Supports multiple export types
• Zero impact on production builds
• Minimal runtime overhead and Zero-depenency
• Dev-focused, and only works while in development mode
• Takes flexible properties so it can work with any IDE that takes a URL file:// entry point
• Is pure CSS, HTML, and JSX meaning it can work in more scenarios than just CRA

📦 Installation

npm install vite-react-quick-fix-plugin --save-dev
# or
yarn add -D vite-react-quick-fix-plugin

🔧 Usage

Add to your vite.config.ts:

import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import {reactQuickFix} from 'vite-react-quick-fix-plugin'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    reactQuickFix({
      editor: 'vscode://file', // default
      baseFilePath: process.cwd() // default
    })
  ]
})

⚙️ Configuration Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
editor	string	'vscode://file'	URL protocol for your editor
baseFilePath	string	process.cwd()	Base path for resolving component files

🤔 How It's Different

Unlike ClickToComponent and similar tools that modify the React DevTools or require browser extensions, this plugin:

• Works directly in your development environment
• Requires no additional browser extensions
• Integrates seamlessly with Vite's build process
• Has zero configuration needed for basic usage
• Maintains clean production builds with no remnant code

⚠️ Limitations

• Currently supports VS Code by default (other editors need custom URL protocols)
• Only detects components with standard React patterns
• May have minor performance impact on large applications with many components
• Does not support source maps in the current version, we chose this to handle larger projects quickly

🔍 Requirements

• Vite 2.x or higher
• React 16.8+ or Preact X
• Development environment must support your chosen editor's URL protocol

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! We're particularly interested in:

• Adding support for more editors
• Improving component detection
• Adding tests

For Maintainers

To maintain this plugin, you should be familiar with:

• Vite's Plugin API
• React/Preact internals
• AST manipulation
• TypeScript
• Build tooling and bundling

📝 License

CC-BY-NC 2.0

🙏 Credits

Inspired by tools like ClickToComponent while taking a different approach to enhance React development workflow.