React-Rewrite
Figma for localhost that directly edits your codebase
Details
- External ID
- 47569923
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- React-Rewrite
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4108241082410824
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer utilities and gaming mods
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- figma for editing code locally
- Manually corrected
- False
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
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