Protractor VS angular-cli

Cypress is a next-generation front-end Automation testing tool built for modern web applications. It is a JavaScript-based end-to-end testing framework and is known for faster test execution as compared with other testing tools (like Selenium or Protractor).

Protractor repo (link)

Protractor has been deprecated for a while on the Angular CLI side and given Nx has had Cypress support for a while it has never been a popular choice. Starting with this release we're deprecating the generator for setting up Protractor and we're planning on removing support entirely in Nx v15.

In recent releases, the Angular CLI kept reducing its feature set, mainly due to tools such as Protractor as well as TSLint being deprecated. As a result, starting with Angular 14, the Angular CLI provides the following when generating a new application:

The Protractor testing framework was created for e2e testing of Angular apps. https://www.protractortest.org/

Future of Angular E2E & Plans for Protractor · Issue #5502 · angular/protractor

In April, the Angular team has announced plans to end the support of Protractor at the end of 2022.

"The Angular team plans to end development of Protractor at the end of 2022 (in conjunction with Angular v15)." - https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/5502

Angular will deprecate Protractor soon https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/5502

module.exports = async (util, rule, host, injector) => { let list = await util.changeList([ { type: 'copy', source: 'git', from: { url: 'https://github.com/angular/angular-cli.git', match: '/packages/schematics/angular/directive/files', output: '/packages/schematics/angular/directive/files', }, pathTemplate: '@angular-devkit', contentTemplate: '@angular-devkit', pathTemplateSuffix: '.template', templateContext: { name: 'hello', standalone: true, selector: 'hello', 'if-flat': (input) => '' }, to: './hello-directive' }, ]); await util.updateChangeList(list); };

Well, scream though I have, the Angular team desperately needs to Remove NodeJS Dependencies, as it has already fallen behind from all frameworks concerning deployment. I'm still waiting for the response on this... 🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗

PR: feat(@angular-devkit/build-angular): add define build option to application builder

The new ssr CommonEngine source code

Source: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/25134

I'm not sure how to solve this but here's something that looks similar to your issue - https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/24373

Sass errors after migrating from Angular 13 to 15 / Node 14 to 18

Edit: Found it at Github https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/25574. So it seems to be a problem

Remove Dependencies for NodeJs

Is it possible to teach llm to read issues and answer questions such as how do I get angular 17 to output to dist instead of dist/browser with you can't do this with angular. However, in your CI CD pipeline, you can do a mv or robocopy or bla bla bla depending on context?

https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/26028

It would be very useful because there are so many edge cases that aren't covered in the docs but are probably available in some kind of WON'T FIX issues.