Doug Parker
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`-x dist/` never worked for reasons I don't really understand. Historically I've just deleted `dist/` before zipping. I tried a few different approaches, but all of them lead to some form of "Name not matched" error in `zip` of the `dist/` directory. Instead I just opted to delete `dist/` as part of the zipping command. The link to recent DevTools commits seems good enough to manually write a changelog. All relevant commits should be using `refactor(devtools)`, so the string "devtools" should definitely be in there. PR Close #59792
Angular DevTools
Angular DevTools is a browser DevTools extension for debugging and profiling Angular applications.
Developing Locally
Set up
Follow the instructions below to set up your Angular DevTools development
environment. Note that all commands should be executed in the repository root, not
devtools/. All file paths are also relative to the repository root.
Debian Linux, MacOS, and Windows via WSL should build successfully. Building natively on Windows without WSL is not supported at the moment.
To set up your development environment, first install the correct version of Node. If you have
nvm set up, this can be done with:
nvm install
Second, install Yarn:
npm install -g yarn@1
Third, install NPM dependencies:
yarn --frozen-lockfile
Now you should be ready to build the DevTools extension.
Dev builds
To run the extension in development mode run:
yarn devtools:devserver
You can also run a standalone version of the demo app with:
yarn devtools:devserver:demo-standalone
This would start a development server that you can access on http://localhost:4200. In development, Angular DevTools uses a "development shell." This is different from "chrome shell" in a way, that it runs the user's app in an iframe. DevTools then communicate with the user's app via message passing.
Release builds
You can build the release version of Angular DevTools for either Chrome or Firefox with:
yarn devtools:build:chrome
yarn devtools:build:firefox
Either way, the built extension will be at dist/bin/devtools/projects/shell-browser/src/prodapp.
Installation
For Chrome, you can install the extension from dist/bin/devtools/projects/shell-browser/src/prodapp by following the
guide from here.
For Firefox, to load the extension, you can go to the about:debugging page, click the "This Firefox" option and then
click the Load Temporary Add-on button. You'll have to select the manifest file in
dist/bin/devtools/projects/shell-browser/src/prodapp directly.