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Adds a live Router inspector.

  • Current: active route tree with params, data, title, outlets and links on the page
  • Navigations: timeline of every navigation with trigger, caller, guards and resolvers run, redirects, timing per phase, and why it was cancelled or failed
  • Routes: the live route config (lazy routes show up once loaded), test a URL against it, navigate to a route from the panel
  • Setup: router options, features and strategies in use
  • Lint: route config problems (ordering, duplicates, redirects, guards, missing titles)

MCP tools: inspect-route, explain-navigation, list-routes, lint-routes, router-config, export-navigation, explain-render-mode, navigate. All have tests.

Works with provideRouter and RouterModule.forRoot. Dev mode only.

Checked with pnpm format:check, typecheck, test, test:devtools, build, extension:build, devtools:build-pkg.

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  • New Features
    • Added a Router inspector with live route and outlet details, navigation history, route configuration, router setup, and lint findings.
    • Added tools to filter and explain navigations, replay and export navigation records, match and navigate routes, and inspect lazy routes.
    • Added route examples demonstrating parameterized routes, redirects, blocked navigation, and resolver failures.
    • Added sensitive-data redaction for route and navigation details.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded the README with Router inspector views, available tools, limitations, and data-redaction details.

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This change adds Angular Router state capture, navigation tracking and actions, agent tools, and inspector views. It also adds router examples, tests, and documentation.

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Live Router Inspection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Router state capture and serialization
packages/ng-devtools/src/router.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/router-config.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/router-links.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/router-setup.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/router-real.test.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/router-forroot.test.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/router-tools.test.ts
Router utilities discover Angular routers, serialize snapshots, track navigation events, collect route configuration, outlets, links, and setup details, and redact sensitive values. Tests cover discovery, snapshots, navigation records, redaction, and capture behavior.
Navigation instrumentation and overlay actions
packages/ng-devtools/src/router-actions.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/overlay.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/router-features.test.ts
The overlay publishes router reports and handles router-action requests. Actions support navigation, abort, replay, probe, instrumentation, and lazy-route resolution. Instrumentation records navigation callers, guard and resolver runs, and preloads.
Report state and router agent tools
packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/router-tools.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/router-config-tools.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/server-routes.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/devframe.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/forms-tools.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/get-routes.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/router-*.test.ts, README.md
Devframe validates and stores reports, then exposes route inspection, navigation explanations, route listing and linting, setup and render-mode details, reproduction export, and navigation actions. Tests cover report validation, tool output, server-route parsing, and utilities. The README documents router tools and the live router resource.
Router inspector views
app/src/pages/router-types.ts, app/src/pages/live-route.ts, app/src/pages/route-current.ts, app/src/pages/route-timeline.ts, app/src/pages/route-tree.ts, app/src/pages/route-lint.ts, app/src/pages/route-setup.ts, app/src/pages/route-inspector.ts, app/src/pages/component-tree.ts, extension/ui/*
The inspector presents current route state, navigation history, route configuration, setup, and lint findings. The component tree displays route and outlet matches.
Example routes
src/app/app.routes.server.ts, src/app/examples/examples.routes.ts, src/app/examples/route-guards.ts, src/app/examples/routes-example.ts
The example app adds a parameterized user route, redirecting and blocking guards, and successful and failing resolvers. It adds navigation links and client-rendered server-route entries.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AngularRouter
  participant initOverlay
  participant Devframe
  participant LiveRoute
  AngularRouter->>initOverlay: Provide router state and navigation events
  initOverlay->>Devframe: Publish router report
  Devframe->>LiveRoute: Update shared router state
  Devframe->>initOverlay: Send correlated router action
  initOverlay->>AngularRouter: Run router action
  initOverlay->>Devframe: Return action result
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Suggested reviewers: santoshyadavdev

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An empty page value can make a navigation action run in multiple open tabs and return a result from the wrong tab. This is a narrow, recoverable developer-workflow risk; the change is otherwise mergeable, with a small validation or fallback recommended.

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In @packages/ng-devtools/src/overlay.ts:
- Line 302: Update the overlay’s `sentGeneration` logic so it advances only when
`push-router` confirms the config was stored; otherwise reset it so later
reports resend the config. Return that stored-config status from the server’s
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- resend the route config when the server does not have it, and on pageshow
- give failed navigation calls unique ids
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- Around line 196-205: Update the `request-router-action` handler to use
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🟡 Minor · Default an empty page before dispatching the action. · devframe.ts:166-183

packages/ng-devtools/src/devframe.ts:166-183
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Default an empty page before dispatching the action.

pageProperty accepts any string, including "". The ?? fallback preserves that value. The overlay then treats the empty value as an untargeted broadcast, so every router-bearing tab can execute the action. The first tab response resolves the request, which can return a result from a different tab.

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-        const result = await requestRouterAction(args.page ?? defaultPageId(), request);
+        const result = await requestRouterAction(args.page || defaultPageId(), request);
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