Sunday, February 15, 2015

Single Devtools with all my enhancements

I have consolidated all my enhancements to Chrome Devtools into one.

DevTools app is featured at Showcase Chrome Debugging Protocol Clients

The URL for enhanced Chrome Devtools is:

http://chrome-developer-tools.googlecode.com/git-history/enhanced/devtools-frontend/Source/devtools/front_end/inspector.html

which you need to load in DevTools app above. Please note that DevTools app is not essential to try out the enhanced version of Chrome Devtools but it sure makes it easy.

The enhancements are:




You need to enable experiments:



I have now made this the default Devtools URL in Chrome Devtools App.

Friday, February 13, 2015

Appolymer - a simple Chrome app shell using Polymer

Appolymer is a simple Chrome App shell using Polymer



> git clone https://github.com/sandipchitale/appolymer.git
> cd appolymer
> npm install
> bower install

The following is needed to deal with CSP policy issue with Polymer in Chrome App

> grunt vulcanize

This processes the app/appolymer.html file and produces app/appolymer-csp.html and app/appolymer-csp.js. Please note that the app/js/background.js uses app/appolymer-csp.html as the URL of the created application window.

Here is the relevant portion of the Gruntfile.js:

  grunt.initConfig({
    :
    :
    vulcanize: {
   options: {
     csp: true
   },
   csp: {
    files: {
    'app/appolymer-csp.html': 'app/appolymer.html'
    },
   }
    },
    :
    :

> cd app

Install using  Settings > Extension > Select Developer Mode > Load unpacked extension... from app folder.

Thursday, February 05, 2015

All files outline - Chrome Devtools Enhancement

Call to action: If you like this functionality then please * the issue 456520.

UPDATE: I just committed a change whereby the identifier at the current caret position is used as initial query string in the Go to member dialog. This gets me very close to the Ctrl+click navigation I am after.

The current implementation of Go to member (CTRL+SHIFT+P) in the Chrome Devtools shows the outline of members in the current script file. That is good, but not as good as showing the members from all the loaded scripts. This is different than simply doing the Search across all sources which will find the text in all files as opposed to the definition of a symbol. That is what I have implemented as Go to member all files (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+P).



In the screenshot below you can see that it is showing the members from all files as opposed to only the current file.


To try this you can use DevTools App and enter the url:

http://chrome-developer-tools.googlecode.com/git-history/allfilesoutline/devtools-frontend/Source/devtools/front_end/inspector.html

I have filed an issue 456520 and submitted a patch.

It works great when I am doing inspector inception as mentioned here. The members can be filtered by typing the search text. The dialog shows the matching members. The line number:script name are shown on the right side. Hovering on the right side will show the full URL of the script. Selecting the member will open up that script at the specific line number.


Feedback welcome!

Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Update: Show constructor definition - Chrome Devtools Enhancement

Call to action: If you like this functionality then please * the issue 453801.

Based on the feedback on the review on issue 453801 I have made some changes to the implementation.

The functionality is now split into the following actions:

For function objects
  •  Show function documentation
For object objects
  •  Show constructor definition
  •  Show constructor documentation
The Show constructor definition works similar to the existing Show function definition, except that it shows the definition of the 'constructor' property.

To turn on the following actions:
  • Show function documentation
  • Show constructor documentation
You have to enable it on the experiments tab by selecting the Show function documentation checkbox and entering the url for APIs like this:


That way the API URLs do not have to be hard coded into the code and you can add additional URLs. The {api} token will be replaced by the API name.

The URLs are (for easy copy/paste):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/{api}
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/{api}
https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/DOM/window.{api}

or alternatively

https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/javascript/{api}
https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/dom/{api}
https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/dom/Window/{api}
https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/svg/objects/{api}
https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/apis/webaudio/{api}

To try this you can use DevTools App and enter the url:

http://chrome-developer-tools.googlecode.com/git-history/issue453801/devtools-frontend/Source/devtools/front_end/inspector.html

Make sure that Enable experiments is checked.

Feedback welcome!