Setting up React Router Devtools

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Installation

Adding React Router Devtools to your project is easy. First install it into your project by running:

npm install react-router-devtools -D

This will install it as a dev dependency in your project.

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Enabling the tools

After you have installed the tools, you need to go to your vite.config.ts file which will probably look something like this:

import { reactRouter } from '@react-router/dev/vite'
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import tsconfigPaths from 'vite-tsconfig-paths'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [reactRouter(), tsconfigPaths()],
})

All you have to do is add the plugin into the plugins array in your vite.config.ts file.

import { reactRouter } from '@react-router/dev/vite'
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import tsconfigPaths from 'vite-tsconfig-paths'
+import { reactRouterDevTools } from "react-router-devtools";

export default defineConfig({
-  plugins: [reactRouter(), tsconfigPaths()],
+  plugins: [reactRouterDevTools(), reactRouter(), tsconfigPaths()],
})

That's it!

You should now see the React Router Devtools in your browser when you run your app.