Is this application still maintained?

[cl-ax]

I'm wondering if it is still maintained, and if it is still recommended for use or if something else (what?) should be used instead. The large number of issues, no recent commits, and no recent triage makes me wonder.

Any idea?

[crfrolik]

It seems that it is not maintained anymore. You might want to avoid using it for now.

[cl-ax]

What's a good alternative?

[ghost]

@coaxial-abraxas As of now, there are no good alternatives. Maybe I should create an angular devtools extension myself.

[Thaval]

@nspeedzy Go for it! Tell me if you need help! I'm interested in better devtools for Angular too.

[kettenbach-it]

Me too!

[ghost]

Sure thing @Thaval and @kettenbach-it !

[kettenbach-it]

This might be an alternative https://github.com/yannickglt/angular-gauntlets

[ghost]

@kettenbach-it I have tried angular gauntlets. It does not work properly either

[crfrolik]

It's worth noting that the Angular roadmap has an upcoming feature for a new "Angular devtools" which looks like a replacement for Augury. I don't know when that is coming, though.

[ghost]

@crfrolik Wait a second, so this angular devtools extension is a proposed feature for angular?

[Thaval]

Yes, quote from the link provided by crfrolik:

We’ll be working on development tooling for Angular that will provide utilities for debugging and performance profiling. This project aims to help developers understand the component structure and the change detection in an Angular application

So we should maybe have a little patience. I'm glad about that as we won't be stressed in maintaining our own solution as web development changes quickly.

[ghost]

@Thaval That's awesome! Let's hope that the angular community accepts this feature and creates a better angular devtools extension than augury.

[david-shortman]

The official Angular DevTools have been released: https://blog.angular.io/introducing-angular-devtools-2d59ff4cf62f?gi=31962ec4a579

Probably worth marking this repository as archived and pointing people to the official repo (which was a joint effort with the Augury team).

[david-shortman]

Suggested updating README: #1512

[cl-ax]

It's good to have an official extension, but... is it really Chrome only? What about Firefox? I have never used Chrome and never will for moral reasons, and I'm not the only one. Does it mean Firefox users will be left out?

[david-shortman]

It's good to have an official extension, but... is it really Chrome only? What about Firefox? I have never used Chrome and never will for moral reasons, and I'm not the only one. Does it mean Firefox users will be left out?

Supporting multiple rendering engines/browser apis wasn't an early goal I guess. Not sure if it's on their roadmap.

There are many, many alternative open-source Chromium-based browsers like Brave that can run the new DevTools if you'd prefer to not use Chrome (as I don't either).

[cl-ax]

Thanks. Part of my opposition to Chrome is the Google snooping, but it's also their bully approach to standards and forcing them down everyone's throats. Using a browser that isn't Chrome but uses the Chrome engine anyway enables that bully attitude and I don't want to condone that.

[david-shortman]

Thanks. Part of my opposition to Chrome is the Google snooping, but it's also their bully approach to standards and forcing them down everyone's throats. Using a browser that isn't Chrome but uses the Chrome engine anyway enables that bully attitude and I don't want to condone that.

Fair enough. It look like someone just opened an issue to track Firefox support here- rangle/angular-devtools#785

[Splaktar]

Yeah, this getting pretty far off-topic, but DevRel mentioned yesterday that any support for Firefox would be evaluated based on community demand/feedback and balanced against other priorities.