The Super Helper plugin has become an indispensable tool for me when writing scripts on my laptop. Notably, the ability to hover over a selected components tree structure and highlight the elements in the attached viewport.
Lately I’ve been thinking about the idea for a new Helper component that resembles a panel, but that has the same hover and preview functionality that Super Helper does. This way the panel can live on the canvas wherever you place it, along with others so your can explore multiple components tree structures simultaneously. Instead of the ‘helper panel’ being connected to a specific output, it is linked to the whole component the way that the trigger component does. Inside the helper panel there could be tabs along the top that would let you see the structure of different input/outputs that the component may have. A small, possibly floating, viewport would still be necessary, but I believe this would also free up a lot of screen space as well.
I don’t have any experience creating components from the backend, I just thought it would be a good to share this idea. Maybe someone would want to make this, or maybe there is already something like this out there. Thanks for reading.