This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-10851. The following is the description of the original issue:
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Currently, the plugin template gives you instructions for running the console using a container image, which is a lightweight to do development and avoids the need to build the console source code from scratch. The image we reference uses a production version of React, however. This means that you aren't able to use the React browser plugin to debug your application.

We should look at alternatives that allow you to use React Developer Tools. Perhaps we can publish a different image that uses a development build. Or at least we need to better document building console locally instead of using an image to allow development builds.