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feat(vite): load the overlay from the plugin, and fix three phase 1 bugs - #376

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What and why

Next part of phase 1 (#340): the one-step Vite setup and the three bugs the audit found. Refs #340.

One-step Vite setup (vite)

  • The Vite plugin adds the overlay to index.html with transformIndexHtml, only while serving. Builds are untouched.
  • The inline import "@pangular-inspector/devtools/overlay" is resolved by Vite like an import in main.ts, so an existing manual import shares the module and the overlay starts once. Nothing is added when the page already imports it.
  • A custom hub base is passed to initOverlay. Analog's dev SSR goes through transformIndexHtml, so SSR pages get it too.
  • New overlay: false option to load it yourself (for example with authToken). No token is put in the HTML.
  • The Analog example drops its manual import. The Vite, installation, overlay, Analog and demo-apps docs are updated.

inspect-providers gave invalid JSON (mcp)

  • The whole-tree answer was sliced at MAX_TOOL_CHARS. That cut the element JSON mid-string and always lost the environment injectors after it.
  • Too-long answers now outline the element injectors, then drop whole subtrees and say how many were left out. Environment injectors are always included.
  • Narrowed answers (selector, token) drop whole entries and say "Showing x of y".

Runtime-only pipes missing from the list (pipes)

  • Pipes the page uses but the source scan can't find (translate, ngrxPush, Material) are now listed with a "runtime only" chip and their live data. There's a new "Runtime only" filter option.
  • When the scan fails but the page reports pipes, the list stays, with a notice and Try again.

DI and Signals showed an empty state on a failed load (ui)

  • Both pages now show an alert with Retry instead of "No DI data found" / "No signals found", plus a smaller alert when only the live tree or graph fails.

How it was verified

  • pnpm commit:check
  • pnpm format:check
  • pnpm typecheck (includes the ngc template checks)
  • pnpm test:devtools (2,020) and pnpm test:panel (454)
  • pnpm skills:check (.claude/ not changed)
  • Docs in apps/docs updated and pnpm docs:build passes
  • pnpm extension:build and extension/ui committed
  • Checked with axe: every panel view, plus the runtime-only pipe row and detail, the scan-failed notice and the DI and Signals error alerts, dark and light, at 1280 and 360px

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • The Vite plugin now loads the inspection overlay automatically on development pages. Manual loading remains available.
    • The Pipes inspector now includes runtime-discovered pipes, identifies those without source locations, and offers a Runtime only filter.
    • Large provider-tree results now remain valid JSON, with outlines and omitted-entry counts when needed.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Inspectors show clear load-error alerts and offer Retry. Runtime pipe results remain available when source scanning fails.
  • Documentation
    • Updated setup and inspector guides to explain overlay loading, retry behavior, runtime pipes, and provider-result limits.

The whole-tree answer was sliced at MAX_TOOL_CHARS, which cut the element
JSON mid-string and always dropped the environment injectors after it.

- An answer that is too long outlines the element injectors, then drops
  whole subtrees from the bottom and says how many were left out
- Environment injectors are always included, in full or as an outline
- Narrowed answers (selector, token) drop whole entries and say
  "Showing x of y"

Refs #340
A Vite setup now takes one step: the plugin adds the overlay entry to
index.html with transformIndexHtml, only while serving. Vite resolves the
inline import like one in main.ts, so a manual import shares the module and
the overlay starts once. A custom hub base is passed to initOverlay.

- New `overlay: false` option to load the overlay yourself
- No tag when the page already imports the overlay
- The Analog example drops its manual import

Refs #340
Library pipes such as translate, ngrxPush and Material pipes were only
used to decorate scanned pipes, so they never showed in the list.

- Runtime-only pipes get a "runtime only" chip and their live data
- New "Runtime only" filter option
- When the scan fails but the page reports pipes, the list stays with a
  notice and Try again

Refs #340
A failed load showed "No DI data found" or "No signals found". Both pages
now show an alert with Retry, and a smaller alert when only the live tree
or graph fails.

Refs #340
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The pull request updates DI, Signals, and Pipes inspector behavior; adds automatic Vite development-page overlay injection; and changes provider inspection to return bounded, parseable responses. It also updates related tests, documentation, the Analog example, and an extension asset reference.

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Inspector updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
DI load failures and retry
app/src/pages/di-inspector.ts, app/src/__tests__/di-load-error.test.ts, apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/injectors.md
The DI inspector tracks tree and source failures separately, shows retry alerts, and reloads both sources. Tests cover independent failures, recovery, and focus handling.
Signal load retries and stale reads
app/src/pages/signal-inspector.ts, app/src/__tests__/signal-load-error.test.ts, apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/signals.md
The Signals inspector tracks graph and source failures, retries both loads, and ignores older graph results. Tests cover retry focus and delayed reads.
Runtime-only pipe discovery
app/src/pages/pipes-inspector.ts, app/src/__tests__/pipes-runtime-only.test.ts, apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/pipes.md
The Pipes inspector combines scanned and live pipes, adds runtime-only filtering and details, and retains available entries when scanning fails.

Vite overlay injection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Overlay injection and plugin behavior
packages/devtools/src/vite-overlay.ts, packages/devtools/src/vite.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/vite-overlay.test.ts, examples/analog/src/main.ts
The Vite plugin injects the overlay into development pages, avoids duplicate injection, and supports custom bases and disabled injection. The Analog example removes its conditional overlay import.
Plugin-based overlay setup
apps/docs/src/content/getting-started/*, apps/docs/src/content/guides/analog.md, apps/docs/src/content/contributing/demo-apps.md
Setup documentation describes automatic injection, manual loading, and the plugin’s development-server behavior.

Bounded provider inspection output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Injector outline representation
packages/devtools/src/rpc/injector-outline.ts
New helpers count injector nodes, build reduced outlines, report omitted children, and find a fitting outline size.
Bounded provider responses
packages/devtools/src/rpc/injector-tools.ts, packages/devtools/src/rpc/__tests__/injector-tools.test.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/agent-tools.test.ts, packages/devtools/src/devframe.ts, apps/docs/src/content/agents/tools.md
Provider responses use outlines or omit whole entries to stay within the character limit. Tests and tool descriptions cover bounded output, parseable JSON, and argument limits.

Extension UI asset reference

Layer / File(s) Summary
Extension bundle reference update
extension/ui/index.html, extension/ui/assets/browser-agent-rpc-BXhoSh1z-CXflmhRO.js
The extension HTML and browser-agent RPC bundle reference the updated JavaScript asset filename.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant ViteDevServer
  participant PangularVitePlugin
  participant InspectorOverlay
  Browser->>ViteDevServer: Request development page
  ViteDevServer->>PangularVitePlugin: Transform HTML
  PangularVitePlugin->>ViteDevServer: Add overlay module script
  ViteDevServer->>Browser: Return transformed HTML
  Browser->>InspectorOverlay: Load injected module
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Merge Risk | 🔵 Low · up to 017a5

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 017a5

After a connection changes, a failed tree load can show an outdated injector tree without a Retry control. This is a bounded recovery issue that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 017a5

The overlay now starts automatically on development pages, with a manual opt-out and existing access settings retained. Provider responses preserve complete data structures instead of cutting JSON. No introduced security failure was established, but live authentication and deployment behavior were not fully validated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Automatic activation broadens instrumentation to development pages that previously needed an application import. The affected security surface is browser runtime data and control within the existing configured hub; the injection does not itself change network admission settings or distribute a pairing token.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The plugin retains authentication-on-by-default configuration and gates hub HTTP and WebSocket requests. Network admission checks address, host, origin and fetch-site context; LAN access requires explicit enablement, authentication configuration, and listed origins. Authentication enforcement downstream of this configuration was not independently validated.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The existing overlay lifecycle stops a prior instance, immediately cleans resources acquired after cancellation, and cleans the current instance on initialization failure. Normal disposal removes listeners, stops collectors, and requests removal of reported page state.
  • inferred — Source loaders lack the ownership guards used by live-tree or graph loads, predominantly an existing limitation. However, the unchanged application host switches away from inspector components on connection failure, which substantially limits stale-state exposure during ordinary reconnects. Direct replacement-client overlap remains incompletely established, without a demonstrated new privilege or data-access path.

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Review comments at @app/src/pages/di-inspector.ts:
- Line 1698: Update the guard in retry() to return when the component is
destroyed or the Signals graph is unavailable, rather than when loadFailed() is
true, so focus is restored after the graph recovers even if the source scan
still fails.
- Line 1905: Expose injector-tree failure separately from the combined
loadFailed() state, and use that tree-specific state to gate the roots branch so
source-scan failures do not hide retained roots. When roots remain available but
loadFailed() is true, render the compact load alert alongside them.

Review comments at @app/src/pages/pipes-inspector.ts:
- Around line 229-235: Update the scan-failure notice in the `loadFailed()`
template to accurately describe the retained `pipes` results when a refresh
fails, or clear stale scan results on failure so the notice remains accurate.
Ensure the notice and `allPipes()` behavior are consistent.
- Line 1422: Update the runtime-only branch in sourceLabel to use an
origin-neutral label, since LivePipeInfo does not identify whether a pipe comes
from an application or a library. Leave the documentation sentence describing
the external-package subset unchanged.

Review comments at @app/src/pages/signal-inspector.ts:
- Line 1530: In the graph-loading flow around graphFailed.set(true), track a
load generation or equivalent cancellation token and check it before applying
success or failure results and installing subscriptions. Ignore all outcomes
from superseded loads so an older read cannot replace a newer graph or restore
its error alert.

Review comments at @packages/devtools/src/rpc/injector-tools.ts:
- Line 69: Update the answer-building logic around largestFitting so that if
partial(0) exceeds MAX_TOOL_CHARS, the environment outline produced by
outlineInjectors is also truncated to the largest fitting count. Add the
requested note to the response, while preserving the existing element-count
trimming path when it fits.
- Around line 256-278: Update fitLists to validate the final rendered result
after narrowing; if it still exceeds MAX_TOOL_CHARS, return a concise message
asking for a shorter selector or token instead of returning the oversized
result.

Review comments at @packages/devtools/src/vite-overlay.ts:
- Line 19: Update the overlay deduplication check using OVERLAY_TAG_ATTRIBUTE
and OVERLAY_ENTRY to inspect actual script elements: recognize the marker
attribute on a script tag and the overlay entry only in executable module
scripts. Do not let mentions in HTML comments or other text suppress overlay
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try {
state = await my.rpc.sharedState('injector-tree');
} catch {
if (load === this.treeLoad) this.treeFailed.set(true);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Repository: pangular-inspector/devtools

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rg -n -F -- 'loadFailed' app/src/pages/di-inspector.ts
rg -n -F -- 'treeFailed' app/src/pages/di-inspector.ts
rg -n -F -- 'sourceFailed' app/src/pages/di-inspector.ts
sed -n '1,180p;300,390p;450,500p' app/src/pages/di-inspector.ts

Repository: pangular-inspector/devtools

Length of output: 12769


Do not let load failures hide Retry.

loadFailed() combines injector-tree and source-scan failures. A source-scan failure can occur while the current live tree remains usable, so gating the roots branch on !loadFailed() would hide valid roots. Exclude only injector-tree failures from that branch, and render the compact alert alongside retained roots for source-scan failures.

🐛 Suggested fix
-  private readonly treeFailed = signal(false);
+  private readonly treeFailed = signal(false);
+  readonly treeLoadFailed = computed(() => this.treeFailed());

-    @if (roots().length > 0) {
+    @if (roots().length > 0 && !treeLoadFailed()) {
+      @if (loadFailed()) {
+        <ng-container
+          [ngTemplateOutlet]="loadError"
+          [ngTemplateOutletContext]="{ compact: true }"
+        />
+      }
       <p class="intro">
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Review comment at @app/src/pages/di-inspector.ts at line 1905:
Expose injector-tree failure separately from the combined loadFailed() state,
and use that tree-specific state to gate the roots branch so source-scan
failures do not hide retained roots. When roots remain available but
loadFailed() is true, render the compact load alert alongside them.

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Comment thread app/src/pages/signal-inspector.ts
Comment thread packages/devtools/src/rpc/injector-tools.ts
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Comment thread packages/devtools/src/vite-overlay.ts Outdated
…can notice

- Signals ignores a graph read that a newer load replaced
- After Retry, focus moves to the filter box (Signals) or the toolbar (DI)
  when the alert goes but the source scan still fails
- Pipes says the last scan is kept when a later scan fails, and labels
  runtime-only pipes "Seen on the page only"

Refs #340
A huge environment outline now leaves out its deepest injectors, and a
selector or token over 500 characters gets a short answer instead of
being echoed back.

Refs #340
Only a script with the marker attribute or a module script that loads the
overlay entry stops the injection.

Refs #340
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