Nightwatch Schematics

Fast and easy installation of Nightwatch into your projects

Framework & Language Supported: Angular

This project is a Schematics implementation that allows you to easily integrate Nightwatch into your Angular projects.

This Schematic will:

🏗️ Install Nightwatch, and it's dependencies
⚙️ Add NPM scripts for running Nightwatch tests
📦 Scaffold base Nightwatch config and test files
❓ Prompt for removal of Protractor files and configuration

Angular

✨ Demo

🚀 Usage

Run as one command in an Angular CLI app directory. Note this will add the schematic as a dependency to your project.

ng add @nightwatch/schematics

One can provide following options:

Option	Description
noBuilder	This will skip the builder addition, leaving the angular.json file unmodified and requiring you to run Nightwatch from the command line or through your IDE. Include --noBuilder in your ng add command.

With the custom builder installed, you can run Nightwatch with the following commands:

ng e2e

ng run {your-project-name}:nightwatch-run

These two commands do the same thing. They will run nightwatch e2e tests.

Once Nightwatch is added to your project, all Nightwatch CLI options will be available when triggering e2e tests. E.g.: --verbose, --retries etc.

✨ Demo

🚀 Usage

Install Schematics CLI globally

npm install -g @angular-devkit/schematics-cli

Install Nightwatch-schematics in your project

npm install @nightwatch/schematics

Run following command to install Nightwatch in your project:

schematics @nightwatch/schematics:ng-add

Once Nightwatch is added to your project, all Nightwatch CLI options will be available when triggering e2e tests. E.g.: --verbose, --retries etc. One can update e2e:test to include cli options.

🐛 Issues

Issues with this schematic can filed here

If you want to contribute (or have contributed in the past), feel free to add yourself to the list of contributors in the package.json before you open a PR!

FAQ

How do I update @nightwatch/schematics package?

This command will update nightwatch schematic package

npm update @nightwatch/schematics

Where can I ask for help and report bugs?

The best way to ask for help and to report bugs is to open an issue.

Gitter is another option.

I created new angular project, how do I remove Protractor and install Nightwatch?

It's very simple, you just have to run ng add @nightwatch/schematics command, and it will prompt you to remove Protractor from angular project.

How do I run on another browser that was initially selected in angular app?

All you have to do is install the relevant drivers, and replace env value (Check the column names in the table below) env-name in angular.json. The config in angular.json will look like this.

  "nightwatch-run": {
    "builder": "@nightwatch/schematics:nightwatch",
    "options": {
      "devServerTarget": "angularapp:serve",
      "tsConfig": "../nightwatch/tsconfig.e2e.json",
      "config": "./nightwatch.conf.js",
      "env": "<env-name>"
    },
    "configurations": {
      "production": {
        "devServerTarget": "angularapp:serve:production"
      }
    }
  },
  "e2e": {
    "builder": "@nightwatch/schematics:nightwatch",
    "options": {
      "devServerTarget": "angularapp:serve",
      "tsConfig": "../nightwatch/tsconfig.e2e.json",
      "config": "./nightwatch.conf.js",
      "env": "<env-name>"
    },
    "configurations": {
      "production": {
        "devServerTarget": "angularapp:serve:production"
      }
    }
  }

How to run e2e tests using npm?

Projects	command
Angular App	npm run e2e
Typescript Project	npm run e2e:test

Drivers

Drivers available to install

Name	driver	command
chrome	chromedriver	npm install chromedriver --save-dev
firefox	geckodriver	npm install geckodriver --save-dev
selenium-server	selenium-server	npm install selenium-server --save-dev

👩🏽‍💻 Development

Getting Started

🛠️ Node.js and npm are required for the scripts. Make sure it's installed on your machine.

⬇️ Install the dependencies for the schematic and the sandbox application

npm i && cd sandbox && npm i && cd ..

🖇 Link the schematic in the sandbox to run locally

npm run link:sandbox

🏃 Run the schematic

npm run build:clean:launch

🧪 E2E Testing

Execute the schematic against the sandbox. It will add Nightwatch config, tests, and custom builder, then run e2e tests in the sandbox.

npm run test

🧪 Unit Testing

Run the unit tests using Jasmine as a runner and test framework

npm run build:test
npm run test:unit

♻️ Reset the Sandbox

Running the schematic locally performs file system changes. The sandbox is version-controlled so that viewing a diff of the changes is trivial. After the schematic has run locally, reset the sandbox with the following.

npm run clean

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These projects: @briebug/cypress-schematic, schuchard/prettier-schematic helped us in development of this project. Thank you!