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  • Introduced new forms example page showcasing Signal Forms, Reactive Forms, and Template-driven Forms.
  • Implemented form validation and error handling in Reactive and Signal Forms.
  • Enhanced the ng-devtools overlay to track form events and states, including highlighting form fields.
  • Added new RPC methods for inspecting forms and reporting their states.
  • Updated routing to include the new forms example and adjusted navigation links accordingly.
  • Improved styling for form components to enhance user experience.
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  • New Features
    • Added a Forms inspector for exploring Signal, reactive, and template-driven forms, including field values, validation, status, submission state, and recent events.
    • Added form inspection and validation explanation tools, with filters, optional value redaction, stale-data notices, and a live forms resource.
    • Added an interactive Forms example featuring all three form types and validation.
    • Hovering over or focusing a form field in the inspector highlights it on the page.
  • Improvements
    • The header and navigation now wrap on narrow screens, and dashboard heading structure has been updated.
    • The development overlay now loads after the application becomes stable.

…integration

- Introduced new forms example page showcasing Signal Forms, Reactive Forms, and Template-driven Forms.
- Implemented form validation and error handling in Reactive and Signal Forms.
- Enhanced the ng-devtools overlay to track form events and states, including highlighting form fields.
- Added new RPC methods for inspecting forms and reporting their states.
- Updated routing to include the new forms example and adjusted navigation links accordingly.
- Improved styling for form components to enhance user experience.
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The pull request adds form discovery, serialization, event reporting, MCP inspection tools, and a Forms inspector. It also adds examples for three Angular form types, updates documentation, and changes overlay startup and bundled asset references.

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Forms inspection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Form discovery and serialization
packages/ng-devtools/src/forms.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/forms*.test.ts
The devtools discover Signal, reactive, and template-driven forms. They serialize field state, constraints, errors, events, and ownership while applying limits and sensitive-value redaction. Tests cover discovery, serialization, events, redaction, and Angular form compatibility.
Page collection and highlighting
packages/ng-devtools/src/overlay.ts
The overlay collects and streams form snapshots and events, manages page IDs, handles cleanup, and highlights resolved form fields.
Shared state and MCP tools
packages/ng-devtools/src/devframe.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/forms-tools.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/forms-tools.test.ts
The devframe validates and aggregates page reports, expires stale pages, exposes a forms resource, and registers inspect-forms and explain-form-invalid.
Forms inspector UI
app/src/app.ts, app/src/pages/forms-inspector.ts, app/src/pages/dashboard.ts
The app adds a Forms tab and inspector with filtering, field details, recent events, loading states, and field highlighting. Dashboard card headings change to h2, and narrow layouts wrap navigation.
Examples and integration
src/app/examples/*, src/main.ts, README.md, extension/ui/index.html, extension/ui/assets/browser-agent-rpc-BXhoSh1z-C4PjrSs6.js
The examples app adds Signal, reactive, and template-driven forms. Documentation describes the tools and resource. Bootstrap loads the overlay after application stability, and bundled module references are updated.

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  participant ExamplePage
  participant Overlay
  participant Devframe
  participant FormsInspector
  participant MCPClient
  ExamplePage->>Overlay: Provide form state and events
  Overlay->>Devframe: Send page form report
  Devframe->>Devframe: Merge reports and update shared state
  FormsInspector->>Devframe: Request and subscribe to forms state
  Devframe-->>FormsInspector: Send snapshots and events
  MCPClient->>Devframe: Call inspect-forms or explain-form-invalid
  Devframe-->>MCPClient: Return formatted form state
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erkamyaman and others added 3 commits September 25, 2026 16:36
The only conflicts were the checked-in bundles under
packages/ng-devtools-assets/dist, which this branch had no reason to
touch. Take main's copies and drop the ones a local build left behind.
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santoshyadavdev merged commit 001e9d5 into santoshyadavdev:main Sep 25, 2026
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