The skeletons right now are too jarring because they're visually heavier
than the content that comes in later. This makes them draw attention to
themselves as flashing things.
A good skeleton and loading indicator should ideally start as invisible
as possible and then gradually become more visible the longer time
passes so that if it loads quickly then it was never much visible at
all.
Even at its max it should never be heavier weight than the final content
so that it visually reverts into lesser. Another rule of thumb is that
it should be as close as possible to the final content in size but if
it's unknown it should always be smaller than the final content so that
the content grows into its slot rather than the slot contracting.
This makes the skeleton fade from invisible into the dimmest color just
as a subtle hint that something is still loading.
I also added a missing skeleton since the stack traces in rendered by
can now suspend while source mapping.
The other tweak I did is use disabled buttons in all the cases where we
load the ability to enable a button. This is more subtle and if you
hover over you can see why it's still disabled. Rather than flashing the
button each time you change element.
Stacked on #33983.
Previously, the source of truth is the url stored in local storage but
that means if we change the presets then they don't take effect (e.g.
#33994). This PR uses the hardcoded value instead when a preset is
selected.
This also has the benefit that if you switch between custom and vs code
in the selector, then the custom url is preserved instead of getting
reset when you checkout other options.
Currently the default is custom with empty string, which means that
there's no code editor configured at all by default. It doesn't make a
lot of sense that we have it not working by default when so many people
use VS Code. So this also makes VS Code the default if there's no
EDITOR_URL env specified.
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.)
We should jump to the right column.
Unfortunately, the way presets are set up now you have to switch off and
switch to the preset for this to take effect.
The `useOpenResource` hook is now used to open links. Currently, the
`<>` icon for the component stacks and the link in the bottom of the
components stack. But it'll also be used for many new links like stacks.
If this new option is configured, and this is a local file then this is
opened directly in the external editor. Otherwise it fallbacks to open
in the Sources tab or whatever the standalone or inline is configured to
use.
<img width="453" height="252" alt="Screenshot 2025-07-24 at 4 09 09 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/04cae170-dd30-4485-a9ee-e8fe1612978e"
/>
I prominently surface this option in the Source pane to make it
discoverable.
<img width="588" height="144" alt="Screenshot 2025-07-24 at 4 03 48 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0f3a7da9-2fae-4b5b-90ec-769c5a9c5361"
/>
When this is configured, the "Open in Editor" is hidden since that's
just the default. I plan on deprecating this button to avoid having the
two buttons going forward.
Notably there's one exception where this doesn't work. When you click an
Action or Event listener it takes you to the Sources tab and you have to
open in editor from there. That's because we use the `inspect()`
mechanism instead of extracting the source location. That's because we
can't do the "throw trick" since these can have side-effects. The Chrome
debugger protocol would solve this but it pops up an annoying dialog. We
could maybe only attach the debugger only for that case. Especially if
the dialog disappears before you focus on the browser again.
This adds a "Code Editor" pane for the Chrome extension in the bottom
right corner of the "Sources" panel. If you end up getting linked to the
"Sources" panel from stack traces in console, performance tab, stacks in
React Component tab like the one added in #33954 basically everywhere
there's a link to source code. Then going from there to open in a code
editor should be more convenient. This adds a button to open the current
file.
<img width="1387" height="389" alt="Screenshot 2025-07-22 at 10 22
19 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fe01f84c-83c2-4639-9b64-4af1a90c3f7d"
/>
This only makes sense in the extensions since in standalone it needs to
always open by default in an editor. Unfortunately Firefox doesn't
support extending the Sources panel.
Chrome is also a bit buggy where it doesn't send a selection update
event when you switch tabs in the Sources panel. Only when the actual
cursor position changes. This means that the link can be lagging behind
sometimes. We also have some general bugs where if React DevTools loses
connection it can break the UI which includes this pane too.
This has a small inline configuration too so that it's discoverable:
<img width="559" height="143" alt="Screenshot 2025-07-22 at 10 22 42 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1270bda8-ce10-4f9d-9fcb-080c0198366a"
/>
<img width="527" height="123" alt="Screenshot 2025-07-22 at 10 22 30 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/45848c95-afd8-495f-a7cf-eb2f46e698f2"
/>
Since we can't add a separate link to open-in-editor or open-in-sources
everywhere I plan on adding an option to open in editor by default in a
follow up. That option needs to be even more discoverable.
I moved the configuration from the Components settings to the General
settings since this is now a much more general features for opening
links to resources in all types of panes.
<img width="673" height="311" alt="Screenshot 2025-07-22 at 10 22 57 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ea2c0871-942c-4b55-a362-025835d2c2bd"
/>