No Link to source-code in Chrome Devtools for React components - reactjs

I use create-react-app 16.["react": "^16.8.4", "react-scripts": "^2.1.8"]
I read the blog on profiling react performance by Ben Schwarz using Chrome Dev tools:
https://building.calibreapp.com/debugging-react-performance-with-react-16-and-chrome-devtools-c90698a522ad
He recommends to export your JS with source-maps.
When he does a performance trace, and clicks on a given react component in the User Timing section, specific component information shows in the Bottum-Up section with ** blue links to the source code** on the right hand side. This links don`t show, when I click on React components. When I click on components like for instance Evaluate Script, the blue links on the right hand side show.
Isn`t source mapping supposed to work "out-of-the-box" with create-react-app 16 in development.
I want to source-map only in development using Chrome Dev tools. Source mapping is activated in the Chrome Browser. What am I missing?
Thx in advance
P.S.:Since I haven`t got 10 reputation points I´m not suppose to use screenshots, which in this case made things not quite easy. I hope I managed to explain my problem sufficiently, though.

The Source Files for Debugging will be available under your localhost:3000 in the Chrome devtools.
We always tend to search under webpack://
Changes have been made to the newer versions I beleive
We always tend to search under webpack://
Changes have been made to the newer versions I beleive

Could you check the file
node_modules/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
Search there for the sourceMap and sourceMaps, and see if that is ok for you.
You can copy that file like "_original", and then set
sourceMaps: true,
in all ocurrences. After that, completely stop the app, and then start it again.
Is that working now?
To verify which sourceMap is working or not, add the sources to workspaces and check for the green dot:
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/workspaces/

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