@zargaryanvh/react-component-inspector 1.0.4 → 1.0.6
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# React Component Inspector
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> **A powerful development tool for inspecting React components with AI-friendly metadata extraction. Fully designed by Cursor AI.**
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## 🎯 What is This?
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React Component Inspector is a development-only tool that helps you identify, inspect, and extract detailed metadata from React components in your application. It's designed to work seamlessly with AI coding assistants (like Cursor) by providing structured, copyable metadata about any component in your UI.
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## 🔍 What Problem Does It Solve?
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### The Solution
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- **One-click component identification** - Hold CTRL and hover over any element
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- **Margin, padding & gap inspection** - Hold CTRL+ALT to see spacing (margin, padding, flex/grid gap) and copy it for Cursor
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- **Rich metadata extraction** - Component name, props, file path, usage context
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- **AI-optimized format** - Copy-paste ready metadata for AI assistants (Component, Margin, Padding, Gap)
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- **How to find in code** - Tooltip shows DOM path, target element, and step-by-step how to find and modify in Cursor
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## 📊 What Data Does It Provide?
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When you hold **CTRL** and hover over an element, a tooltip appears showing component metadata, copy buttons (Component / Margin / Padding / Gap), and the "How to find in code" section:
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=== TYPE: COMPONENT ===
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=== ELEMENT IDENTIFICATION ===
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Element Type: button
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Element Text/Label: "Save Transaction"
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=== HOW TO FIND AND MODIFY THIS COMPONENT IN CODE ===
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When you copy **Margin**, **Padding**, or **Gap**, you get the same structure with current values and instructions for changing that spacing in code (e.g. `sx={{ m: 1 }}`, `sx={{ p: 0.5 }}`, `sx={{ gap: 1 }}`).
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When you click **Copy Component**, **Copy Margin**, **Copy Padding**, or **Copy Gap**, the clipboard gets the full block (element identification, DOM path, TARGET, and “How to find and modify in code”). Paste that into Cursor and ask it to change the component, margin, padding, or gap; the text is written so Cursor can locate the right element and apply the change.
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