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22+ React Developer Tools to Increase Your Programming Productivity [Updated 2021]

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22+ React Developer Tools to Increase Your Programming Productivity [Updated 2021]

React Developer Tools Reactide Belle react-styleguidist React Material template React Semantic UI Profiler React Component Benchmark React Developer Toolbox React Bootstrap Admin template Sing App Periscope React wastage Monitor React Studio Atom React Plugin React Extension pack React Style generator Flatlogic One React React Testing Library React Monocle React + Redux kit React Boilerplate Storybook React-Sight

Conclusion

As you can understand from the title of this article, the goal is to be more productive developing React applications. That is why a long intro is unnecessary.

There are only two points that I want to highlight at the very beginning of the article:

This list is opinionated. That means first of all that you can make your additions. I am sure that it can be extended to 30 or even 40 React developer tools. That is why your comments on Facebook or Twitter are highly appreciated. This article can be useful first of all to beginners. That is why I provide some additional historical or background information about React.js in some paragraphs.

React Developer Tools

Reactide

Github stars: 9662 Web-site: http://reactide.io/

Image source: http://reactide.io/

Reactide is an integrated development environment (IDE) for web developers using React.js. If you use this tool, you don’t need server configuration as well as build-tool. Reactide is a React developer tool, it is simply a desktop application that offers great opportunities for visualization thought live code editing.

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Belle

Web-site: http://nikgraf.github.io/belle

Image source: http://nikgraf.github.io/belle/#/?_k=744r8m

This open-source library was built by the members of React community. Belle is a UI framework that was built because of the difficulties with creating a decent UI with React in a short period. Too much freedom with React can lead to a giant waste of time. And that is where the opinionated component library Belle comes in handy. You can easily customize these components, and think only about the features you need to have. Mobile support and consistent API complying with React are also two big pluses of this React dev tool.

react-styleguidist

Web-site: https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/getting-started

React development environment. You need to install webpack in order to use this tool. You can see some examples here and here.

React Material Admin

Web-site: https://flatlogic.com/templates/react-material-admin

Image source: https://flatlogic.com/templates/react-material-admin

Admin template is a great React development tool that simplifies the process of coding. The benefits of using admin templates are well known. This particular admin dashboard follows Google material design guidelines. It is completely jQuery and Bootstrap free and can be used for fast development of almost any kind of web application.

Basic Tables; React Router;

Charts; Authentication; Basic Dashboard; Notifications bar.

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You might want to read “19 Online Tools for Creating Charts”

React Semantic UI

Web-site: https://react.semantic-ui.com/

Image source: https://react.semantic-ui.com/

There is an original Semantic UI library. And to use it in React you need to use a React integration of this library and Semantic UI CSS package. It will help to speed up the development process because of the prebuilt UI components. React Semantic UI is jQuery-free. As you probably know jQuery is a library for DOM manipulation. That is why it is unnecessary to keep real DOM in sync with virtual DOM (React uses JS representation of the real DOM).

Among other features semantic UI React has:

Declarative API Shorthand Props Sub Components Augmentation Auto Controlled State

Profiler

Web-site: https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/51

Image source: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/09/10/introducing-the-react-profiler.html

Two years ago the React team introduced Profiler. It gives you a summary of re-rendering of your app. You can increase your debugging performance using this “recording” your set of interactions with the help of this profiling feature. You will be able to see a visualization of re-render as well as screenshots of DOM update.

React Component Benchmark

Web-site: https://github.com/paularmstrong/react-component-benchmark

Image source: https://github.com/paularmstrong/react-component-benchmark

Do you remember react-addons-perf? This tool provided developers with insights about app performance. As the new version of React has been released you can no longer use react-addons-perf. React Component Benchmark is an open-source project that aims to solve the problem of getting an accurate benchmark metric. But it is important to understand that only large enough sample will give you a confident metric. The reason it’s happening like this is that this project does not hook into React directly. And because of this values are not accurate enough. That is why it is reasonable to run large samples using this React development tool.

React Developer Toolbox

Web-site: http://react-toolbox.io/#/

Image source: http://react-toolbox.io/#/

This is the best tool for developing Material Design UI. It has tons of responsive components that comply with Google Material Design guidelines. The exhaustive list you can find right here. React Toolbox is created on top CSS Modules, ES6, and Webpack. Documentation page contains all the live examples of each component so it’s very illustrative.

React Bootstrap

Web-site: https://react-bootstrap.github.io

You can make a case that bootstrap is the largest UI ecosystem in the world. So React-Bootstrap was built for compatibility with Bootstrap. This is one of the oldest libraries for React. It has Bootstrap core, rely on Bootstrap stylesheet and fully evolved side by side with React.js itself. If you want a set of accessible-by-default components React-Bootstrap is giving you much more possibilities than plain Bootstrap.

Admin Templates: Sing App React

Web-site: https://flatlogic.com/templates/sing-app-react

This fully responsive admin template was downloaded more than 1000 times. This template is versatile and was built by professional UI/UX experts. It has more than 60 ready-to-use components and provides you with intuitive framework. It can be useful for building such CRM, CMS, SAAS, etc.

Tens of Pages Fully Responsive 8 Charts Library 2 Dashboards Theme Support E-Commerce Section Static & Hover Sidebar Fully Documented Codebase

Periscope

Web-site: https://github.com/shea-hawkins/periscope

Image source: https://github.com/shea-hawkins/periscope

There isn’t much to say about this open-source project. This is monitoring for Redux applications. You can view your app at all times and adjust the timeline range.

React Wastage Monitor

Web-site: https://github.com/MalucoMarinero/react-wastage-monitor

Image source: https://github.com/MalucoMarinero/react-wastage-monitor#react-wastage-monitor

This project helps you to manage performance issues by detecting wasted rendering time. To understand the importance of this tool you need to dive deep into the concept of <PureComponent>. Implementing PureComponent stops the process called React reconciliation (you can read more here). And PureComponent only re-render when it’s necessary. If you rely on Redux managing to access possible performance mistakes you risk making a critical mistake. React Wastage Monitor ensures you never waste computation on unnecessary renders.

React Studio

Web-site: https://reactstudio.com/

Image source: https://reactstudio.com

React Studio is a useful tool for web developers and web designers. Web developers can enjoy clean JS code, good visual design representation that respects React.js concepts. You can design separate UI components using the code generator. A designer can enjoy responsive layouts that can be easily turned into React code, mobile preview and use it as a prototyping tool. You can have your clean code promptly with nothing extra.

Atom React Plugin

Web-site: https://orktes.github.io/atom-react/

Image source: https://orktes.github.io/atom-react/

This is support for the Atom Editor that helps highlight JSX code. JavaScript Syntax eXtensin without the plugin is very difficult to work with. With the addition of highlighter and code folding, you can make fewer mistakes. It will help you be more productive and makes your job easier.

React Developer Tool. Extension Pack

Web-site: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jawandarajbir.react-vscode-extension-pack

Image source: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jawandarajbir.react-vscode-extension-pack

As well as the previous tool this one is used to adjust your code editor. You can speed up the development process in Visual Studio using these seven extensions:

Code snippets; An integrated npm; ES6 snippets; ESLint; File paths; IntelliSense for npm modules; A search feature for node_modules.

React Style Guide Generator

Web-site: http://pocotan001.github.io/react-styleguide-generator/#!.

Image source: http://pocotan001.github.io/react-styleguide-generator/#!.

You need to maintain a consistent style across all the pages. When a big team is working on the same project all colors, typography, paddings should be consistent. To make a convenient style guide you can use React Style Guide Generator. And even if in a couple of years you will need to make adjustments or addons to your project you can simply give a developer or agency your style guide.

Flatlogic One React

Web-site: https://flatlogic.com/templates/one-react-template

Image source: https://flatlogic.com/templates/one-react-template

This is an admin template made with React 16 and Redux. The template has a responsive layout with tens of pages and hundreds of customizable components. The designers did a good job on this product. Flatlogic One React is a good basis for creating CMS systems, SAAS, Blog/Data management solutions, E-Commerce.

Tens of Pages; Beautiful charts made with Amcharts, Echarts, and Apexcharts; Fully responsive; React 16; Redux; Login and Logout screens; Notifications & Icons; Flatlogic Typography & Icons; 2 Dashboards;

Google Maps Integrated, etc.

If you’re interested in more examples of a react template, Flatlogic team can offer them for you.

React Testing Library

Web-site: https://testing-library.com/docs/react-testing-library/example-intro

If you use create-react-app you have support of Testing Library. If you don’t, you can use npm

npm install –save-dev @testing-library/react

React Monocle

Web-site: https://github.com/team-gryff/react-monocle

Image source: https://github.com/team-gryff/react-monocle

When you work on some complex projects with tons of classes of components it is always hard to manage such a project and debug it. In this case, only a transparent structure of a project is a condition for the successful delivery of a project. React-monocle can visualize all the relationships of all the components and show you the hierarchies very fast.

React + Redux starter kit

Web-site: https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot

Image source: https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot

This starter kit implements React best practices. This includes:

Bundling; Minification; Testing; Lintinting; Hot reloading, etc.

The most valuable part of this project is the amount of developers expertise that was put is this boilerplate. You no longer need to make tons of difficult decisions starting from the structure of the project until the testing.

React Boilerplate

Web-site: https://www.reactboilerplate.com/

Image source: https://www.reactboilerplate.com/

When you start a new app very often create-react-app crosses your mind. But you can also use a boilerplate with all dependencies prebuilt. This ready-to-use was created by the community to maximize the development speed and therefore your effectiveness. React Boilerplate can easily work with well known Chrome Redux DevTools.

Storybook

Web-site: https://storybook.js.org

Image source: https://storybook.js.org/

Storybook helps you develop nice separate UI components. In case when you need to make some isolated from business logic this tool provides so-called sandbox. And that in this sandbox or playground (you can call it as you want) you can create components. So why it is called a storybook? Because it documents components as stories. Each story contains states. Each state can be may be compared with the visual test case. In the end, a story is simply a function. This function returns a value that is rendered to the screen.

React-Sight

Web-site: https://github.com/React-Sight/React-Sight

Image source: https://github.com/React-Sight/React-Sight

This tool fully supports Router, Redux, and Fiber, and shows your app’s hierarchy. As well as previous visualization tool it requires to React Dev Tools that can be installed as an extension in Chrome.

Finally…

JavaScript is famous for the number of tools that you can use. As time goes by you get overwhelmed and tired. You need to have a set of proven tools for your coding process. We offer you a series of articles about React.js development tools.

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How to Choose the Best React Drag and Drop? Top 15 Free Libraries to Set Up

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How to Choose the Best React Drag and Drop? Top 15 Free Libraries to Set Up

What is Drag and Drop? Drag and Drop types Basic Concepts How to choose the Drag and Drop? Typescript vs Javascript How to build a custom React Draggable Component? How do I drag and drop in React dnd? React Drag and Drop Library List Wrapping Up About Flatlogic

User experience is crucial when you interact with your website or web app. Though it may seem that choosing a drag and drop element is no big deal, after all, it’s just a basic functionality component! But, the drag and drop module lets you transfer the items between drag handlers, tables and lists, touch devices, animations, previews, and placeholders, thus resolving the simple but still integral step that allows you to ‘take an object’ and drag it to another location.

What is Drag and Drop?

Drag and drop is an action carried out by the user in order to move one or another element to a different place in UI. There are lots of well-known applications where you use the drag and drop function as the basic one, let’s remind ourselves of just a few of them: Trello, Jira, Zapier, Monday, and others, where we one way or another using drag and drop to move things.

This simple action may be comfy not only as a part of the modern user experience, especially for those people who have disabilities or some difficulties with performing manual-type actions.

But why does such a simple element take quite a while to develop? The answer is simple: it takes a lot of code to build high-quality, neat and clean JavaScript forms. And it is much faster to run any ready-made library where you can easily borrow some pieces of code.

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Drag And Drop Types

There are dozens of open-source libraries that help to create draggable and movable elements (e.g. lists, cards, tables, etc) in your React app. And, this option can simplify the UX route, in comparison to the process of filling in forms, and shortens the time of one or another formal action.

The most common use cases for drag-and-drop in React include: uploading files; replacing the components within created lists and rearranging images and assets.

Basic Concepts

DragDrop Container: where you held and then taken out the component (data)

Children: the content of dataItem; DragDropContext: is the place where drag-and-drop is carried out;

Droppable: the component which allows draggable components to be able to drop at the targeted area;

Draggable: the component which will be replaced;

As well as Droppable, it requires several properties to make the component displaceable;

onDragStart: onDragStart component occurs when the user starts to drag an element;

onDragEnd: the component known as DragEnd occurs after the action has been accomplished;

DataTransfer: the component that can hold data about the dragged object;

DropTarget: component that contains drop data;

How to Choose a Good Drag and Drop?

Surely, this is a relatively controversial question, because if you have enough time at your disposal, you may start coding on your own. Moreover, if you’re a junior programmer, we would not recommend that you use any ready libraries, but try to figure out the problem using your own code. Yes, bugs are inevitable, though after each challenge there will surely be progress.

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Typescript vs. Javascript Library

The vast majority of drag and drop libraries are written with the help of Typescript prevalence because Typescript is known for being structured, highly secure, and more consistent than vanilla Javascript. At the same time, it takes longer to compile the code in TypeScript, whereas JavaScript is more easy and flexible in terms of development.

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React Pagination Guide And Best React Pagination Libraries

So, if you are an old-school adherent, who is devoted to JS, you should understand that you need to know Typescript peculiarities to write with it. Plus, the size of the code will increase, because Typescript requires extremely detailed and accurate coding.

How to Build Custom Draggable Components in React?

To enable dragging on the component we need to proceed this path:

First off, create a drag component (drop area), in other words — container, where you will further drag dataItem. Set the draggable attribute on the dataItem

Handle onDragStart event Add here event.dataTransfer.setData

event.dataTransfer.setData component will contain some data, dataItem Create a function startDrag event Create a dropTarget component; it will call an event handler when dataItem with children will be dropped in Handle onDragOver event Create event.preventDefault() function that will enable the dropping process of the component Handle onDrop event Set the consent function – getData

Call the dropped component onItemDropped

Finally, return the components to their initial state,

<div onDragOver=dragOver onDrop=drop> props.children </div>);

Voila! This way your component will be ‘transferred’ from the container to the DropTarget.

How to Make Drag and Drop With React dnd library?

React Drag’n’Drops Libraries List

1. React Beautiful Dnd

React beautiful dnd is the most popular library to build React Drag and Drop lists easily. It has already won the heart of 23.8k developers on GitHub, thanks to its high performance. It has a clean and powerful API that is easy to work with and it fits well with any modern browser.

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2. React Drag and Drop Container

Here the name of the library speaks for itself. React Drag Drop container offers functionality for mouse and touch devices; i.e. it allows you to set up a draggable element, drop a target for it, plus, it highlights the drop target when dragging over it (highlightClassName). Also, you can drag an element copy of the element, or let the element disappear while dragging (disappearDraggedElement).

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3. Draggable

Another well-deserved library, does not perform any sorting behaviour while dragging, it has the following modulers: Droppable, Sortable, and Swappable. Draggable itself does not perform any sorting behaviour while dragging, but does the heavy lifting, e.g. creates mirror, emits events, manages sensor events, makes elements draggable.

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4. React Grid Layout

React Grid Layout library has 13,5k stars on GitHub. Inside you will get a fluid layout with sensible breakpoints, static widgets, draggable and resizable widgets. You can drag the elements, and resize them. The closest similar instrument is called Packery, though this is a bin-packing layout library using jQuery, which React Grid Layout doesn’t use.

: React-Grid-Layout works well with complex grid layouts that require drag-and-drop, such as dashboards which can be resized(e.g., looker, data visualization products, etc.)

: Because of the clunky API, React-Grid-Layout may need more calculations and it’s obviously a better fit for large-scale apps.

5. React Dropzone

React Dropzone is an example of simple HTML5 drag and drop zone with React.js. It requires a standard installation process with npm command and using a module bundler like Webpack or Browserify. React Dropzone has 8.2 Github stars and is based on Javascript.

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6. React DND

React DND got 15.9k stars on GitHub, and was written mainly with the help of TypeScript, as well as JavaScript and CSS. It has the sort option, group option, delay option, delayOnTouchOnly option, swapThreshold option, and many other essential features for implementing drag and drop components. React DND works well with grids, one-dimensional lists, but it’s harder to work with than for instance the well-known react-beautiful-dnd when you need to customize something individually.

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7. React SortableJS

React sortable is one more brilliant instrument made with Javascript and HTML, commonly used for creating drag-and-drop lists. It has all the basic functionalities of sorting/delaying/swapping/inverting and lots of others. Available on all touch modern browsers and touch devices.

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8. Interact.js

Snap, resize, customize your drag and drop elements with Interact.js. The library has also an advanced version, check it here. It also supports evoking simultaneous interactions; interaction with SVG and works well with desktop and mobile versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Opera as well as Internet Explorer 9+. Sharp has 10.2 k on GitHub and

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9. React Kanban

React Kanban is a relatively young but super pluggable library positioning itself as ‘one more Kanban/Trello board lib for React’. Kanban was written with the help of JavaScript, SCSS and HTML. But, be careful using this library with lots of cards (more than 1k), cause then you may face some performance hurdles. In this case, virtual lists may become the solution.

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10. Juggle and Drop

Juggle and Drop is an instrument to manage your tasks made with pure Javascript, with the help of React, redux, MLAB, express mongodb, Google Analytics. With Juggle and Drop you can add, edit, delete cards and lists; clone the component, navigate to the root directory, and other.

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11. React Motion

One more highly recommended and really powerful package for working with animation functions in JS. This package has 19.7k on GitHub, and 612,446 installations according to NPM. And among others, it has sorting lists with drag and drop. How to get started? npm install — save react-motion and keep working!

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12. React Smooth DnD

The React-smooth drag and drop package is a super lightweight and highly customizable library for React with 1,5k stars on GitHub and with lots of configuration options covering d&d scenarios. The cardboard and fonts look really neat and pleasant to the eye.

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13. Nested DND

Nested DND in juicy colors helps to drag a part of the stack with the items lying on top of the dragged one. Drop it on top of any plays, and see how simple and intuitive it is.

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14. React Nestable

React Nestable, an example of JavaScript drag and drop library, is a drag & drop hierarchical list made with a neat bit of deduction. This package is finalizing our list of open-source drag and drop libraries recommended while building the dnd option.

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15. React Files Drag and Drop

One more relatively fresh library to manage and customize your inner drag and drop component easily is React-files-drag-and-drop. It has a list of basic properties and was developed with TypeScript and CSS language.

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Check more examples of React drag and drop on codesandox or here.

Wrapping Up

Now you know enough about React DnD libraries and it is high time to explore further the rest of the documentation in detail! Stay motivated, don’t be afraid of making mistakes, and debugging them! Well, this is a good place to tell: if you’ve never made a mistake, you’ve probably never done anything.

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