From 87aaa4933ca074f7d746b704bd3198c6bb991eab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AleksanderBodurri <alex.bodurri@mail.utoronto.ca>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 11:13:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(devtools): check if node.children is undefined before
 trying to convert it into an array (ex. node is a text node)

---
 projects/ng-devtools-backend/src/lib/observer/observer.ts | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/projects/ng-devtools-backend/src/lib/observer/observer.ts b/projects/ng-devtools-backend/src/lib/observer/observer.ts
index b9a526fa976..6e873242222 100644
--- a/projects/ng-devtools-backend/src/lib/observer/observer.ts
+++ b/projects/ng-devtools-backend/src/lib/observer/observer.ts
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ export class ComponentTreeObserver {
     if (component) {
       componentAccumulator.push(component);
     } else {
-      Array.from(node.children).forEach(child =>
+      Array.from(node.children || []).forEach(child =>
         this._getAllNestedComponentsWithinDomNode(child, componentAccumulator)
       );
     }
@@ -186,9 +186,10 @@ export class ComponentTreeObserver {
       directives = ng.getDirectives(node);
     } catch {}
 
-    Array.from(node.children).forEach(
+    Array.from(node.children || []).forEach(
       child => (directives = directives.concat(this._getAllNestedDirectivesWithinDomNode(child)))
     );
+
     return directives;
   }