Get Reactotron on macOS and Linux Now!
A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows
Get Reactotron with one command
Pick your system, reveal the step-by-step guide, copy the command, paste it into your terminal and press Enter. This command comes from the project's public source.
Not available for Windows yet.
Reactotron doesn't publish an install command for Windows anywhere we can verify, so there's nothing for us to show you. We won't invent one. It does document one for macOS and Linux — switch to that tab.
Pastes into PowerShell and installs Reactotron on your Windows machine in one step. Runs as your normal user account, and needs no administrator rights.
Not available for macOS yet.
Reactotron doesn't publish an install command for macOS or Linux anywhere we can verify, so there's nothing for us to show you. We won't invent one.
Installs Reactotron on your macOS or Linux machine and links it into your PATH — after this,
Reactotron just works from any directory. Runs as your normal user account, and needs no administrator rights.
How to set up Reactotron, step by step
Open Terminal. On a Mac it's in Applications ▸ Utilities, or press Cmd+Space and type Terminal. On Linux, press Ctrl+Alt+T. Paste the command and press Enter.
Run Reactotron --help to see the available commands, and
Reactotron --version to confirm the install worked. If your shell complains about
permissions, that project usually documents a corrected command on its own site.
This asks Homebrew to fetch Reactotron and link it into /opt/homebrew/bin (Apple Silicon) or /usr/local/bin (Intel), so you can run it by name.
What Reactotron does
- track global errors with source-mapped stack traces including saga stack traces!
- hot swap your app's state using Redux or mobx-state-tree
- perform quick performance benchmarks
- subscribe to parts of your application state
- dispatch actions like a government-run mind control experiment
- show image overlay in React Native
Summarised from Reactotron's own documentation.
About Reactotron
A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows
| Category | Developer tool |
|---|---|
| Install method | Homebrew |
| Windows | no install command published |
| macOS / Linux | documented install command available |
| Price | Free and open source |
| Command verified | From project source |
| Popularity | 16k stars on the project's public repository |
On mobile
Reactotron is a command-line tool, so there is no phone app for it — a phone has no shell to run it in. You'll need a desktop, or a remote shell into a machine that has one.
Reactotron is developed by its own authors. This page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by the project. The command shown here was reproduced from the project's public documentation — always check the project's own documentation before running anything.