angular/devtools
AleksanderBodurri bf292bdcae test(devtools): revive cypress tests (#61972)
Previously these tests would run automatically when Angular DevTools lived in another repo. These files have continued to live here but have not been running automatically on each PR.

Now, these test files have been revived to run properly with our changes since the repo merge. This is a first step to reviving our e2e testing.

Next steps include writing cypress tests for new features like Injector Graph, Router tree, signals visualizations, etc.

PR Close #61972
2025-07-11 10:33:50 -07:00
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cypress test(devtools): revive cypress tests (#61972) 2025-07-11 10:33:50 -07:00
docs docs: update Angular DevTools release docs (#62352) 2025-06-30 07:36:19 +00:00
projects test(devtools): revive cypress tests (#61972) 2025-07-11 10:33:50 -07:00
src test(devtools): revive cypress tests (#61972) 2025-07-11 10:33:50 -07:00
tools build: disable firefox tests in devtools (#62504) 2025-07-07 18:29:19 +00:00
.gitignore refactor(devtools): prepare codebase for migration to angular/angular repo 2021-11-21 20:23:18 -05:00
BUILD.bazel build: migrate adev devtools package to use ts_project (#61210) 2025-05-08 09:38:30 -07:00
cypress.json refactor(devtools): bring the angular devtools directory into the root bazel workspace 2022-01-26 16:35:31 -05:00
README.md test(devtools): revive cypress tests (#61972) 2025-07-11 10:33:50 -07:00
tsconfig-test.json build: migrate adev devtools package to use ts_project (#61210) 2025-05-08 09:38:30 -07:00
tsconfig.json build: migrate devtools to use packaged version of @angular/* packages (#62413) 2025-07-02 16:10:25 +00:00
tslint.json build(devtools): disable the "Rebase PR on target branch" circleci job so that the PR that merges the unrelated history of rangle/angular-devtools can be successfully merged into angular/angular 2022-01-26 16:35:30 -05:00

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

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.

Running End-to-End Tests

Before running end-to-end tests, you need to start the development server using:

yarn devtools:devserver

You have two options for running cypress, you can use the interactive cypress UI or you can run Cypress in headless mode.

To open Cypress for Angular DevTools in interactive mode, run:

yarn devtools:e2e:open

To run Cypress tests headless, use:

yarn devtools:test:e2e

Release builds

You can build the release version of Angular DevTools for either Chrome or Firefox with:

yarn devtools:build:chrome:release
yarn devtools:build:firefox:release

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.