Protractor
E2E test framework for Angular apps (by angular)
material.angular.io
Docs site for Angular Components (by angular)
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| Protractor | material.angular.io | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 3 | |
| 8,758 | 866 | |
| -0.1% | 0.9% | |
| 0.0 | 6.6 | |
| 11 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| JavaScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Protractor
Posts with mentions or reviews of Protractor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.
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Introduction to Cypress and UI Test Automation
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).
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Overview over Angular’s repositories
Protractor repo (link)
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Nx 14.5 - Cypess v10, Output globs, Linter perf, React Tailwind support
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.
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Angular CLI and Nx - Why?
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:
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Help with automatization
The Protractor testing framework was created for e2e testing of Angular apps. https://www.protractortest.org/
- Unit testing library for Angular application
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Protractor is dead, long live Cypress! - Part 1
Future of Angular E2E & Plans for Protractor · Issue #5502 · angular/protractor
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Angular 12 in Depth
In April, the Angular team has announced plans to end the support of Protractor at the end of 2022.
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Looking for some advise/direction on a new testing framework
"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
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What UI testing framework do you use and what do you like/dislike about it?
Angular will deprecate Protractor soon https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/5502
material.angular.io
Posts with mentions or reviews of material.angular.io.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-16.
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Overview over Angular’s repositories
Angular Components website repo (link)
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What is the most efficient Angular way to organize an API documentation website that changes based on the version number?
Google maintains 1 source tree for the material site: https://github.com/angular/material.angular.io and it is hosted in firebase: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting
- Angular docs refresh on first load?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Protractor and material.angular.io you can also consider the following projects:
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
flex-layout - Provides HTML UI layout for Angular applications; using Flexbox and a Responsive API
WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
ngcc-validation - Angular Ivy library compatibility validation project
TestCafe - A Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing.
vscode-ng-language-service - Angular extension for Visual Studio Code
jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing.
universal - Server-side rendering and Prerendering for Angular
Cypress - Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
material2-docs-content - Docs content for @angular/material
Nightmare - A high-level browser automation library.
code-of-conduct - A code of conduct for all Angular projects
Protractor vs Playwright
material.angular.io vs flex-layout
Protractor vs WebdriverIO
material.angular.io vs ngcc-validation
Protractor vs TestCafe
material.angular.io vs vscode-ng-language-service
Protractor vs jest
material.angular.io vs universal
Protractor vs Cypress
material.angular.io vs material2-docs-content
Protractor vs Nightmare
material.angular.io vs code-of-conduct