What is React Scanner Studio?

React Scanner Studio is a portable, interactive dashboard for analyzing React component usage across your codebase. It leverages react-scanner under the hood to scan your component data.

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The Problem

When working with large React codebases or design systems, you often need to answer questions like:

• Which components are most frequently used?
• What props are commonly passed to a component?
• Is our design system being adopted consistently?
• Which components might be candidates for deprecation?

While react-scanner provides powerful scanning capabilities and outputs detailed JSON data, interpreting that raw data can be tedious and time-consuming.

The Solution

React Scanner Studio takes the JSON output from react-scanner and transforms it into a beautiful, interactive dashboard that makes it easy to:

• Visualize component usage — See at a glance which components are used most frequently
• Analyze prop patterns — Understand how components are being configured
• Share insights — Generate static HTML files that can be shared with anyone
• Track adoption — Monitor design system adoption across your codebase

How It Works

┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│                 │     │                 │     │                 │
│  Your React     │────▶│  react-scanner  │────▶│  React Scanner  │
│  Codebase       │     │  (JSON output)  │     │  Studio (UI)    │
│                 │     │                 │     │                 │
└─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘

1. Initialize — The init command creates a configuration file tailored to your project
2. Scan — The scan command (or automatic prompts) analyzes your codebase and generates a JSON report
3. Visualize — React Scanner Studio reads the report and displays an interactive dashboard
4. Share — Build static files to host anywhere or share with your team

Key Features

🔍 Automatic Configuration

The init command automatically creates a react-scanner.config.js file tailored to your project, so you can start scanning immediately.

📡 Integrated Scanning

The scan command wraps react-scanner with a beautiful CLI experience, automatically finding your config file and providing helpful output.

🚀 Development Server

The start command launches a local development server with hot reloading, perfect for exploring your component data during development.

📦 Static Build

The build command generates a portable, self-contained dashboard that can be:

• Hosted on GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, or any static file server
• Shared via email or internal file sharing
• Archived for historical comparison

🔧 CI/CD Integration

Built-in support for continuous integration environments with the --ci flag, making it easy to generate reports as part of your build pipeline.

Prerequisites

React Scanner Studio requires:

• Node.js 18.0 or higher
• react-scanner (automatically installed during init if not present)

Future Plans

React Scanner Studio currently leverages react-scanner for codebase analysis. We are developing our own scanning engine that will introduce additional capabilities:

• Deeper component analysis — Enhanced detection of component relationships, patterns, and hierarchies
• Performance insights — Identification of potential performance bottlenecks in component usage
• Smarter prop intelligence — More sophisticated prop pattern recognition and recommendations
• Framework-aware scanning — Optimized support for Next.js, Remix, and other React frameworks
• Incremental scanning — Faster scans by only analyzing changed files

React Scanner Studio will continue to support react-scanner for those who prefer it. The new engine will be an optional upgrade.

Follow our GitHub repository or join our Discord community for updates.

What's Next?

• Installation Guide — Install React Scanner Studio
• Quick Start — Get up and running in 2 minutes
• CLI Commands — Explore all available commands