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feat(hub): add an All tools dock, a full panel link and dock status titles - #338

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Fixes #336.

With the hub mounted, nothing in the rail led to the full panel at /__devframes/pangular/, so the other tabs were one URL away with no way to find them. A dock whose tool had nothing to show looked the same as one with data.

  • All tools dock: a new first entry in the rail, with the Pangular logo, that opens the full panel. It stays registered when every inspector is off.
  • Open full panel link: each single tool view (?view=...) has a link in its header to the full panel on the matching tab: NgRx to #tab=store, Analog to #tab=analog, Capacitor to #tab=capacitor, Angular and Angular Native to the tab you had open, and a view showing setup steps to the Dashboard. Inside the hub a click switches the frame in place and selects All tools in the rail. Outside the hub, or with a modifier key, it is a plain link. It never shows without ?view, or in the Chrome extension.
  • Docks with nothing to show: the hub can't disable a dock, so a tool with nothing to show gets a title that says why, which is also its tooltip and accessible name. The placeholder pages with setup steps stay. A badge was tried first, but the hub fades a rail button that isn't selected, badge included, so it failed axe contrast (1.65:1 light, 2.17:1 dark) and covered the icon.
    • Capacitor: "Capacitor: no app connected", back to "Capacitor" when an app reports, and again on forget or expiry.
    • Angular Native: "Angular Native: no app connected", the same way.
    • Analog: "Analog: not an Analog app", checked once at startup like analog-project.
    • A dock is updated only when its tool's availability changes, since each docks.update re-sends every dock to every client.
  • Docs: the hub section of the popup and hub page (All tools, the full panel, a table of the dock tooltips, the #tab=capacitor deep link), lines in the Analog, Capacitor and Angular Native pages, and the Dock entry in docs/CONTEXT.md.

How it was verified

  • pnpm commit:check (6 commits)
  • pnpm format:check
  • pnpm typecheck (includes the ngc template checks)
  • pnpm test:devtools (1756) and pnpm test:panel (412); new tests fail without the change
  • pnpm skills:check
  • Docs in apps/docs updated and pnpm docs:build passes
  • pnpm extension:build and extension/ui committed
  • Checked in the browser with axe: scripts/panel-axe.mjs 37 views, dark and light. It now fails if a ?view= page lacks the link. On the SSR demo: All tools first and opening the full panel, the dock titles, the Capacitor link to #tab=capacitor, fast switching and a reload staying in sync, a fake Capacitor page restoring the plain title and bringing the reason back on close, axe clean at 1280 and 360px with the link focused.

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Notes for reviewers

  • The hub type docs say a higher defaultOrder comes earlier, but hub-ui 1.2.3 sorts ascending, so All tools uses defaultOrder: -1.
  • The docks keep sharing frameId: 'pangular'. With a shared frame, hub-ui reuses the iframe and doesn't load the new dock's URL, so the panel now follows the rail selection itself and switches between the full panel and a view in place. It reads the hub's client context from the parent window (__DEVFRAME_HUB_CLIENT_CONTEXT__), which is not a documented API. Without it, the panel behaves as before and the link is a plain link.
  • In a fresh browser profile the hub selects the first dock, so it now opens on All tools instead of Angular. The floating button still opens the rail.
  • NativeScript keeps its plain title: a NativeScript app reports like a browser page, with no platform tag, so the server can't tell whether one is connected. Its view is the setup card in any case.
  • Tested on the demo (4200), the SSR build (4000) and an Android emulator app: rail order, the full panel and its deep links, the link on all five views with keyboard and Cmd-click, 10 quick switches with reloads, the Capacitor title clearing and coming back, no console errors, and axe clean on the full panel and the views. The badge findings from that run are fixed here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an All tools option to the hub rail for opening the full panel.
    • Added an Open full panel link to eligible views. Opening it preserves other URL parameters and selects the requested or previously active tab.
    • Hub rail indicators now reflect whether Analog, Angular Native, and Capacitor tools have data, with explanations when they are unavailable.
  • Documentation

    • Updated hub and inspector guidance, including full-panel navigation, tool availability, and Capacitor deep links.

A hub dock opened one view of the panel, and nothing led from there to
the full panel with every tab. Add an Open full panel link to the header
of each single view. Inside the hub it switches the shared frame to the
full panel in place, on the tab with the same content, and selects the
All tools dock; elsewhere it is a plain link. The full panel now also
follows the rail, so the views and the full panel can share one frame.
The rail had no entry for the full panel, and a dock whose tool had
nothing to show looked the same as one with data. Register an All tools
dock first in the rail that opens the full panel in the shared frame.
Mark the Analog, Angular Native and Capacitor docks with a setup badge
and a title that says why while their view only has setup steps, and
update a dock only when its tool starts or stops having data.
Explain the All tools entry at the top of the hub rail, the Open full
panel link in single views with the tab it lands on, and when the
Analog, Angular Native and Capacitor docks carry a setup badge.
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Walkthrough

The hub now registers an All tools dock and tracks availability for Analog, Angular Native, and Capacitor docks. Tool views can link to the full panel. Plain clicks inside the hub switch panels and tabs in place, while other clicks follow the URL. Documentation, tests, and bundled extension references are updated.

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Hub dock registration and availability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Register and track hub docks
packages/devtools/src/hub-docks.ts, packages/devtools/src/hub-dock-status.ts, packages/devtools/src/rpc/analog-scan.ts, packages/devtools/src/devframe.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/hub-docks.test.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/hub.test.ts, docs/CONTEXT.md, apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/*, apps/docs/src/content/getting-started/angular-native.md
The registry adds All tools and availability updates for Analog, Angular Native, and Capacitor docks. Devframe setup supplies watched states for availability tracking. Tests cover registration, ordering, titles, and reporting states. Documentation describes dock labels and availability; the Angular Native app-selection paragraph is unchanged.

Full-panel navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Navigate from views to the full panel
app/src/full-panel.ts, app/src/hub-dock-sync.ts, app/src/app.ts, app/src/__tests__/full-panel-link.test.ts, scripts/panel-axe.mjs, apps/docs/src/content/getting-started/popup-and-hub.md, extension/ui/index.html, extension/ui/assets/browser-agent-rpc-BXhoSh1z-C8HzKFQC.js
Tool views expose a full-panel link where available. Plain clicks in the hub switch to All tools and restore the requested or remembered tab; other clicks follow the link normally. Tests and the accessibility check cover the link and navigation. Documentation adds full-panel and deep-link details, and the extension references the updated bundle.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant App
  participant HubDock
  User->>App: Click Open full panel
  App->>App: Show full panel and requested tab
  App->>HubDock: Select All tools
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0fc01

The hub navigation and dock updates have no established material regression, and the extension references its included bundle. No material merge risk remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0fc01

The new navigation exposes existing development tools through the same panel, while configured inspector restrictions remain applied. No new privilege path was demonstrated. Behavior during failed or delayed hub navigation remains unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The added entrypoint broadens discoverability within the existing Pangular development panel, rather than establishing a new service identity. Its observed operations target the existing shared frame, dock registry, and component-tree/Capacitor state sources. Production network exposure was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Hub context lookup uses the parent window and treats inaccessible cross-origin access as no hub. The new link uses the current location’s path and remaining query, with an internally selected tab; it is suppressed on chrome-extension URLs. The added selection request uses a fixed dock identifier.
  • observed — The repository’s hub authentication and allowed-origin configuration is unchanged in the full PR comparison. Enforcement inside the external hub runtime was not independently verified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Availability updates derive from shared-state presence and suppress repeated equal values, limiting redundant dock broadcasts. Hub-following returns listener/timer cleanup, which the app invokes on destruction. Server-side availability subscriptions expose no cleanup handle in the new wrapper.

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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #336 requires a discoverable route from the hub rail or each dock to the full panel. The PR adds an All tools dock and Open full panel links from single-tool views. The links target the required…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes remain connected to issue #336. Dock availability titles address the issue's related unavailable-tool confusion without removing placeholder pages. Tests, accessibility checks, generated e…
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The hub fades a rail button that is not selected, badge included, so the setup badge failed the axe contrast check in both themes and covered the lower half of the icon. The dock now only says why it has nothing to show in its title, which is also its tooltip and accessible name.
From a dock with nothing to show, Open full panel linked to the full panel without a tab, so it landed on whichever tab the panel remembered, such as Store from an earlier NgRx visit. It now links to the Dashboard.
The rail no longer shows a setup badge, so the hub section and the Analog, Capacitor and Angular Native pages now describe the tooltip, and say the full panel link opens the Dashboard from a setup view.
@erkamyaman erkamyaman changed the title feat(hub): add an All tools dock, a full panel link and setup badges feat(hub): add an All tools dock, a full panel link and dock status titles Oct 11, 2026

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The view's own tab won over the setup check, so with no Capacitor app or outside an Analog app the link pointed at a tab the full panel doesn't show. A view that shows setup steps now always links to the Dashboard.
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