Encourages atomic design
Atomic Design becomes natural when your file system supports true hierarchy.
REACT FILE NESTING EXPLORER
Understand Your UI as a Tree
Turns sprawling React projects into legible, living trees.
Why This Tool Exists
Your file system should scream your UI.
Your UI is built from nested components. But your editor still shows everything as a flat and alphabetized lists. React File Nesting Explorer fixes that. It lets your file system behave like your interface. You simply expand the tree and follow the structure of your UI.
When your file tree matches your UI, navigating your project becomes instant, intuitive, and wildly more enjoyable.
Navigate Instantly
See parent and child components exactly as they're composed.
Order files as they matter, not alphabetically
Prioritize importance, UI hierarchy, or workflow. Not the alphabet.
Benefits
Build Faster. Understand Faster. Onboard Faster.
Whether you're shipping product UI, design systems, or internal tools, React File Nesting Explorer gives your team a shared, visual map of the codebase.
Clearer mental models
Match your file tree to how you already picture the UI architecture in your head.
Better onboarding
New engineers can understand the project by exploring the tree instead of reading every file.
Less noise on screen
Collapse groups and only expand deeper when you actually need the details.
Works across editors
Use it in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and any VS Code–compatible IDE.
Open source
Free, open source, and built for the community.
React File Nesting Explorer is fully open source and free to use. No paywalls, no locked features—just a better way to work with React files in your editor.
Install it for your team, star the repository, and help shape the roadmap with issues and pull requests.