u/Horror_Turnover_7859

Limelight -- a free, open source dev tool for debugging React Native

Debugging React Native sucks compared to regular React.

About a year ago, I got so fed up with it that I built a tool to solve my own problem and created Limelight, a free and open-sourced dev tool to help debug and increase performance.

From one app, it lets you track rendering, network requests, state change (redux/zustand), and logs. Also, you can connect the same SDK to your server and see the full lifecycle of any given network request.

There's also an MCP server, so you can let your AI see all of your app's runtime data if you don't want to download/learn a new app.

Its 100% local, no data leaves your machine, and can be set up with one line of code.

So far it's at ~5k weekly downloads, would love a star on GH if you find it useful!

u/Horror_Turnover_7859 — 14 days ago