Mozilla requires add-ons to have reproducible builds and this is managed directly by human reviewers and need to understand how to build Angular DevTools correctly. This commit defines a reproducible way of building Angular DevTools which is useful for reviewers and contributers.
The actual changes I made include:
1. Moving local development content into `devtools/README` (deleting `devtools/DEVELOPING.md`) and explicitly stating the Node version as well as global Yarn install to be clear about the correct way to build the extension. This should make it easier for reviewers to understand and reproduce builds.
2. Moving release instructions to a separate doc to reduce noise as well as making some minor clean ups there.
I briefly considered pointing reviewers at a new `devtools/docs/reviewers.md` doc, but decided against it because I want these instructions to be maintained in a single location where contributors and reviewers use the same content. This way any changes don't miss one of these sets of users. If reviewers have trouble with this format (dev builds isn't useful to reviewers and some content is repeated from other docs for contributors) then we can consider splitting out to a separate `reviewers.md` file. But until then, I'd like to try sharing this content and see how it works out in practice.
PR Close#55406
This provides some more information on how to release and notably includes commands for zipping extension code and source code, which can otherwise be tricky to get exactly right.
PR Close#54525
These docs are out of date with how we currently build devtools in dev mode and as a browser extension. This commit brings these docs up to date.
PR Close#53948
In Angular v12 we introduced debugging APIs sufficient for DevTools.
Prior to that Angular DevTools accesses the logical data structures of
Ivy directly, which sometimes produces suboptimal results and skips
dynamically inserted content.
With the end of v11's LTS, we'll support only Angular v12 and up.
PR Close#45883
