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> I recently was trying to diagnose a bug with React state in someone else's project. Everything I found said "install the React extension"

Really curious what you mean by that.

There are two possible Chrome (not React) extensions for dev tools that I can think of — one is the "official" extension by React core team that helps visualise components better and also helps understand why they may have rerendered. The other is a redux extension that's very helpful to inspect all the actions that were dispatched against the store and the changes they caused in the redux state. None sounds like what you are describing. Bugs with React state should be easy to diagnose just with a handful of console logs.