React-Rewrite
Figma for localhost that directly edits your codebase
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HN · launched Mar 30, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 59%) · 0 views
Niche: source code editors and extensions · 100 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -58% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial While an in-browser inspector UI is straightforward, parsing, modifying, and round-tripping React JSX code directly to the local filesystem without breaking AST formatting requires sophisticated AST manipulation.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a browser overlay communicating over WebSocket with a local dev server plugin (e.g., Vite or Next.js middleware). The server must use Babel or SWC AST parsers (@babel/parser, @babel/traverse, and recast) to locate exact source coordinates and perform source-to-source rewrites while preserving user code style and formatting.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Webflow, Google Chrome Dev Tools
Feature requests: Add screenshots or screen recording to README, Add demo link
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 377 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #204 of 378 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 142 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I created a React alternative using web componnents · hn · 2026-06-03 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- fh1_rewrite · github · 2026-10-08 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Lume.js · hn · 2025-12-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Rewrite · github · 2026-10-06 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- react-builder · github · 2026-10-19 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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- SDS - Start Dev Server · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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