React Docgen
react-docgen
A library to extract information from React components for documentation generation.
Utilities
react
documentation
documentation-generation
react-docgen
Utilities
javascript
npm
frontend
open source
ui
Stars
3.8k
Weekly
12M
Open issues
112
Bundle
~15 kB
Installation
npm install react-docgenCode example
import { useDocgen } from "react-docgen";
export function Example() {
const value = useDocgen();
return <p>{String(value)}</p>;
}Pros & cons
Pros
- Actively maintained by Felix Kling
- 12M weekly downloads. Battle tested
- First-class TypeScript definitions
- MIT licensed
Considerations
- Adds roughly ~15 kB to your bundle
- Needs client-only rendering in SSR frameworks
- Not supported in React Native
- 112 open issues on GitHub