'Electron - How to add react dev tool

What is the easy way to add react dev tool to electron window? I try add the extension hash

BrowserWindow.addDevToolsExtension('path/to/extension/ade2343nd23k234bdb').15.01

But when the extension update, I had to manually update the string in main.js. I'm looking for a better way.

electron

Solution 1:^[1]

Here is a Solution for Electron <= 1.2.1 version

1- In your app folder

npm install --save-dev electron-react-devtools

2- Open your electron app, click on (view/toggle developer tools). In the console tab insert the following code and hit enter:

 require('electron-react-devtools').install()

3- Reload/refresh your electron app page and you'll see the react dev tools appear.

4- Done!

See screen shots bellow

Solution 2:^[2]

You can add react devtools directly from your main.js file like this

const installExtensions = async () => {
  const installer = require('electron-devtools-installer')
  const forceDownload = !!process.env.UPGRADE_EXTENSIONS
  const extensions = [
    'REACT_DEVELOPER_TOOLS',
    'REDUX_DEVTOOLS',
    'DEVTRON'
  ]

  return Promise
    .all(extensions.map(name => installer.default(installer[name], forceDownload)))
    .catch(console.log)
}

app.on('ready', async () => {
  if (dev && process.argv.indexOf('--noDevServer') === -1) {
    await installExtensions()
  }
  createWindow()
})

Solution 3:^[3]

addDevToolsExtension is not an instance method, so you need to call BrowserWindow.addDevToolsExtension('path/to/extension').

Solution 4:^[4]

Below solution worked for me (https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/electron-devtools-installer#usage) -

npm install electron-devtools-installer --save-dev 
or 
yarn add electron-devtools-installer -D

import installExtension, { REDUX_DEVTOOLS } from 'electron-devtools-installer';
// Or if you can not use ES6 imports
/**
const { default: installExtension, REACT_DEVELOPER_TOOLS } = require('electron-devtools-installer');
*/
const { app } = require('electron');

app.whenReady().then(() => {
    installExtension(REDUX_DEVTOOLS)
        .then((name) => console.log(`Added Extension:  ${name}`))
        .catch((err) => console.log('An error occurred: ', err));
});

Solution 5:^[5]

If you see a blank component when launching react-devtools, it's probably because you've installed the package globally as it is recommended in the react-native docs, in the debugging section. What's happening is it doesn't get connected to your app, because it's not your app-specific.

You need to install it locally.

npm install --save-dev react-devtools

yarn add -D react-devtools

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Solution	Source
Solution 1
Solution 2	Pushkin
Solution 3	Vadim Macagon
Solution 4	Chetan Gawai
Solution 5	yavnelf

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