Copy React Props to Your Clipboard in Google Chrome
While working on a React project today, I was looking to copy a property passed down to a component. After searching around, I found out it’s surprisingly easy.
- Open up the
React Developer Tools
tab within the Chrome inspector.
Step one, selecting the React tab within the Google Chrome developer tools - Select the component or element which contains the property you want to copy.
Step two and three, selecting a component and then right clicking specific indicator - Right-click the
{…}
and select Store as global variable from the menu. - Navigate to the console tab.
Step four and five, navigating to the console tab and then taking notice of a new variable. - You will notice a global variable was added with a naming convention similar
to
$tmp
ortemp1
. - Copy the value to your clipboard by typing
copy($tmp)
into the console.Step 6, copying the value to your clipboard
What’s great about this trick is almost any value which has the {…}
beside it
within the Chrome inspector can be set as a global variable. Therefore, this
method is not limited to the React Developer Tools.