feat(router): clear the navigations list and keep probes out of Only problems by erkamyaman · Pull Request #293 · pangular-inspector/devtools

erkamyaman · 2026-10-11T03:31:02Z

What and why

The Navigations view had no way to empty its list, so testing a flow from a clean list meant reloading the app. HTTP, Analog and change detection each already have a clear. This adds a Clear button. It calls a new clear-router-navigations RPC with the shown page's id. The server drops that page's navigations, loop warnings and dropped count, then sends router-clear to that page only. The page empties its own list, so its next report does not bring the old entries back. A navigation still running is kept on both sides, so its later events and any Navigate or Replay waiting for its outcome still find it. The RPC is gated by actions.router, the same way clear-http-calls is gated by actions.http. The blocked note now reads "Navigating and clearing navigations is turned off in the devtools config (actions.router)." The status line ("Navigations cleared." / "Could not clear the navigations.") is a live region that is always in the page, and focus stays on Clear after the list empties.

Only problems also listed the navigations that Probe in app cancels on purpose, while the tab badge left them out. It now skips probes too.

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pnpm format:check
pnpm typecheck (includes the ngc template check)
pnpm test:panel: 246 passed, including the new route-timeline-clear.test.ts
pnpm test:devtools: 1513 passed, including the new router-clear.test.ts
pnpm docs:build
pnpm extension:build, with extension/ui committed
axe on every panel view of a static report, dark and light: no violations
SSR demo in a real browser: axe and a 360px check on Navigations before and after Clear, dark and light. Rows went from 6 to 0, focus stayed on Clear, and a new navigation appeared alone.
pnpm commit:check

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Notes for reviewers

PR fix(router): clear stale results and messages in the Router tab #282 also edits route-timeline.ts (the message and filters become linkedSignals tied to pageId). This change does not touch those lines; the probe rule is a separate isProblem() method. After fix(router): clear stale results and messages in the Router tab #282 merges, clearNavigations() could use its pageId().
Only problems still differs from the badge in two ways: it shows skipped navigations and succeeded navigations that are part of a loop, and the badge counts neither. Only the probe gap is fixed here.
No agent tool was added for clearing.

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New Features
- Added a Clear action to remove completed navigations and loop warnings from the current page without reloading. Pending navigations remain visible, and other pages are unaffected.
Bug Fixes
- Updated Only problems to exclude navigations canceled by Probe in app.
- Clear reports success or failure only when the page where it was started is still selected.
Documentation
- Clarified that disabling router actions turns off both navigation and clearing.

…problems The Navigations view had no way to start over, so testing a flow from a clean list meant reloading the app. HTTP, Analog and change detection all have a clear. Add a Clear button that calls the new clear-router-navigations RPC with the shown page's id. The server drops that page's navigations, loop warnings and dropped count, then tells the page (router-clear), which empties its own list so the next report does not bring the old entries back. A navigation still running is kept on both sides so its events and any action waiting on it still find it. Like clear-http-calls, the RPC is a write gated by actions.router, so the button is off with the note when router actions are off, and the note now reads "Navigating and clearing navigations is turned off". The status line is a live region that is always in the page, and focus stays on Clear after the list empties. Only problems counted the navigations that Probe in app cancels on purpose, while the tab badge left them out. It now skips probes too.

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The router now supports clearing completed navigations for a selected page while retaining pending navigations. RouteTimeline exposes the action, updates its problem filter, and reports request status. The overlay applies page-targeted clear events.

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Router navigation clearing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clear navigation state and RPC `packages/devtools/src/router.ts`, `packages/devtools/src/rpc/router-tools.ts`, `packages/devtools/src/devframe.ts`, `packages/devtools/src/config.ts`, `packages/devtools/src/__tests__/router-clear.test.ts`, `packages/devtools/src/__tests__/config.test.ts`, `packages/devtools/src/__tests__/router-mcp.test.ts`	The clear RPC validates router-action availability and the page ID. It removes completed navigations, clears dropped counts, recalculates loop warnings, and broadcasts the page-targeted event. Tests cover retained pending records, page isolation, and rejected requests.
Apply clear events in the overlay `packages/devtools/src/overlay.ts`, `packages/devtools/src/__tests__/router-clear.test.ts`	The overlay handles clear events for its current page by clearing records, invalidating cached router data, and scheduling an update. Tests cover events for matching and other pages.
Expose clearing and problem filtering `app/src/pages/route-timeline.ts`, `app/src/__tests__/route-timeline-clear.test.ts`, `app/src/__tests__/router-panels.test.ts`, `apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/router.md`, `apps/docs/src/content/getting-started/configuration.md`, `apps/docs/src/content/agents/tools.md`, `extension/ui/index.html`, `extension/ui/assets/browser-agent-rpc-BXhoSh1z-D8iXQ_Gr.js`	RouteTimeline adds Clear, status messages, and probe exclusion from Only problems. Tests cover success, failure, page changes, disabled actions, and filtering. Documentation and action messages describe the updated behavior; the extension references the updated bundle.

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

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RouteTimeline
  participant Devframe
  participant RouterTools
  participant Overlay
  RouteTimeline->>Devframe: Call clear-router-navigations with page ID
  Devframe->>RouterTools: Clear page navigation state
  RouterTools-->>Devframe: Return whether the page changed
  Devframe-->>Overlay: Broadcast router-clear for page ID
  Overlay->>Overlay: Clear matching page records and schedule router update

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 05dc2

Clearing works, but screen-reader users may miss confirmation of a second clear. This is a bounded accessibility issue to fix or explicitly accept before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 05dc2

The operation is limited to navigation diagnostics and preserves ongoing work. Who can invoke it and how interrupted clears recover are not fully established, so the risk is low rather than minimal.

Retained concerns
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Security Blast Radius

inferred — Each invocation targets one page's diagnostic records, not application routing state. A caller permitted to invoke the action repeatedly could target multiple known pages within the same host session; page targeting alone does not establish caller ownership or authorization.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The browser clear-event handler checks router inspection and exact page identity, but does not independently check actions.router. It relies on the guarded server path and transport provenance. Direct untrusted event delivery was not established, so this is an unresolved boundary dependency rather than a verified bypass.
observed — The PR base already exposed page-targeted router action broadcasts and server-side page removal through the same RPC abstraction. These are counterevidence to treating shared transport trust as newly introduced, but they do not prove authorization for the new local-history mutation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Both reset implementations retain pending navigation records. The browser implementation mutates the existing array in place, preserving the correlation state used by navigation-completion waiters instead of cancelling ongoing application work.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Verify real-transport authorization and event provenance, including whether callers may target other pages and whether untrusted callers can deliver router-clear directly. A page-side actions.router check could provide defense in depth if event provenance is not guaranteed.
proposed — If Clear is intended to guarantee durable removal across delivery failures, define an acknowledged reset generation and stale-report policy. Otherwise, document the operation as a best-effort diagnostic reset rather than secure erasure.

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+      await rpcCall(client, 'clear-router-navigations', this.page().pageId);
+      this.message.set('Navigations cleared.');


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Keep the clear status with its page.

If the user selects another page while this RPC is pending, Line 760 shows “Navigations cleared.” on the new page, although the request cleared the previous page. Capture the requested page ID. Set the result message only if that page is still displayed, and clear the old message when the displayed page changes.

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If the user switched pages while Clear was waiting for its answer, "Navigations cleared." showed on the newly shown page. The result is now only shown when the page it was for is still the one on screen.

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+    try {
+      if (!client) throw new Error('No connection');
+      await rpcCall(client, 'clear-router-navigations', pageId);
+      text = 'Navigations cleared.';


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Announce every successful clear.

If the user records new navigations and clears this page again, message already says “Navigations cleared.” The status node does not change, so a screen reader receives no second result announcement. Set an in-progress message before awaiting the RPC, then set the final message.

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fix(router): keep a clear result on the page it was for

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If the user switched pages while Clear was waiting for its answer, "Navigations cleared." showed on the newly shown page. The result is now only shown when the page it was for is still the one on screen.

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