When a browser extension is updated it becomes invalidated on currently open pages. If that extension then tries to send a message to those pages through `chrome.runtime.sendMessage(..)` then an error is thrown in the console
For Angular DevTools, this results in spamming the console with "Uncaught Error: Extension context invalidated." errors.
This commit catches that error and removes the event listener that triggers the `chrome.runtime.sendMessage(...)` call.
PR Close#55697
Angular DevTools depends on many modern Angular features in order to function. As a result, at present the last officially supported version is v12. Angular DevTools may function for some Angular 9, 10 and 11 applications, but they are not officially supported.
This commit fixes an issue where DevTools would not inject a backend script into an Angular application if it detected it was below version 12. This backend script is important because it's used to inform the DevTools panel that the inspected application is in fact Angular, but that it is not on a supported version.
Angular 9, 10 and 11 applications that successfully have Angular DevTools initialize will now have a red highlight and tooltip on their version number, informing the user that they are using Angular DevTools on a version of Angular that is no longer supported.
Angular DevTools for applications that are below version 9 will continue to display the "Angular Devtools supports Angular versions 12 and above" message.
PR Close#55233
Modifies the messaging layer of devtools to allow for switching communication between frames on a page. When served as a browser extension.
Design:
- When a page renders, DevTools installs a content script onto it through it's manifest file. The all_frames option is used here to install this script onto every frame in a page.
- When Angular is detected, the content script will install a backend script into it's frame.
- Each content script / backend script pairing is kept track of in the background script. This pairing represents an angular devtools context in a particular frame.
- Angular DevTools is able to ask the background script to list each frame that has been registered on a page.
- Angular Devtools is able to ask the background script to "enable" the connection on a particular frame. This enables the messaging between the content script <-> background script <-> devtools page
Limitations:
- The `inspectedWindow.eval` API is only able to target frames by frameURL. This means some features that integrate with Chrome DevTools like inspect element and open source will not be available when inspecting frames that do not have a unique url on the page.
PR Close#53934
Enabling `strict` is part of an effort to improve the quality of the devtools code base.
One of the direct side effect is to enable `noImplicitAny`, `strictPropertyInitialization` and `strictBindCallApply`.
This commit also replaces `fullTemplateTypeCheck` with `stringTemplates`.
PR Close#53340
