Show the name of state variables from useState in React Developer Tool

Question

I am learning react-hooks, I created a series of state variables using useState, when trying to debug and see its value I find that React Developer Tool does not show the name assigned to the state variable but the text State, this is inconvenient as it is not possible to identify from the beginning which variable is the one that is tried to debug

Update 1

This is the current source code

import React, { useState, useEffect, Fragment } from "react";

function Main() {
  const [data, setData] = useState({ hits: [] });
  const [query, setQuery] = useState("redux");
  const [url, setUrl] = useState(
    "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=redux"
  );
  const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false);
  const [isError, setIsError] = useState(false);

  useEffect(() => {
    const fetchData = async () => {
      setIsError(false);
      setIsLoading(true);

      try {
        const response = await fetch(url);
        const json = await response.json();

        setData(json);
      } catch (e) {
        setIsError(true);
      }

      setIsLoading(false);
    };

    fetchData();
  }, [url]);

  return (
    <Fragment>
      <form
        onSubmit={event => {
          setUrl(`http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=${query}`);
          event.preventDefault();
        }}
      >
        <input value={query} onChange={event => setQuery(event.target.value)} />
        <button type="submit">Search</button>
      </form>

      {isError && <div>Something went wrong ...</div>}

      {isLoading ? (
        <div>Loading...</div>
      ) : (
        <ul>
          {data.hits.map(item => (
            <li key={item.objectID}>
              <a href={item.url}>{item.title}</a>
            </li>
          ))}
        </ul>
      )}
    </Fragment>
  );
}

export default Main;

I am getting this in React Developer tool

Updated 2

I am using Firefox 68

Is it possible that React Developer Tool shows the name of state variables created using useState?

Answer 1

See this issue:

https://github.com/facebook/react-devtools/issues/1215#issuecomment-479937560

That's the normal behavior for the dev tool when using hooks.

I asked the library author about it, cause I also would like it to show my state variable names. And that's what he said:

@cbdeveloper I haven't thought of a good way for DevTools to be able to display the variable name like you're asking. DevTools doesn't have a way to read your function's private variables, and changing the API to support passing in a display name would increase the size of component code. It also just doesn't seem necessary to me, more like a nice to have.

Anyway, this umbrella issue is not the best place to have discussions like this. If you feel strongly about it, I suggest opening a new issue.