Pragma Comments

Package: @autotracer/plugin-babel-react19  ·  Layer: Build  ·  Type: Reference

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Pragma comments are build-time line comments that @autotracer/plugin-babel-react19 reads while transforming eligible React components through Babel.

They are not a React feature and they are not JavaScript directives. In AutoTracer, they are per-component override comments used during build-time injection.

Use them immediately above an eligible top-level component declaration. The shared React 19 transformer reads function-level leading comments for top-level component declarations and component variable declarations.

Read together with mode, include, and exclude.

Supported Comments

@trace

Use // @trace to enable instrumentation for one eligible component.

// @trace
export function CheckoutPanel() {
  return <section />;
}

@trace-disable

Use // @trace-disable to disable instrumentation for one eligible component.

// @trace-disable
export function AnimatedSpinner() {
  return <div />;
}

Precedence

1. A file and component must pass include and exclude first.
2. Inside that eligible set, @trace-disable wins over @trace.
3. mode decides the fallback only when no pragma settled the result.

@trace never rescues a component that misses include or matches exclude.