Puppeteer Angular Schematic

Adds Puppeteer-based e2e tests to your Angular project.

Getting started

Run the command below in an Angular CLI app directory and follow the prompts.

Note this will add the schematic as a dependency to your project.

ng add @puppeteer/ng-schematics

Or you can use the same command followed by the options below.

Currently, this schematic supports the following test runners:

• Jasmine
• Jest
• Mocha
• Node Test Runner

With the schematics installed you can run E2E tests:

ng e2e

Options

When adding schematics to your project you can to provide following options:

Option	Description	Value	Required
--test-runner	The testing framework to install along side Puppeteer.	"jasmine", "jest", "mocha", "node"	true

Creating a single test file

Puppeteer Angular Schematic exposes a method to create a single test file.

ng generate @puppeteer/ng-schematics:e2e "<TestName>"

Running test server and dev server at the same time

By default the E2E test will run the app on the same port as ng start. To avoid this you can specify the port in the angular.json Update either e2e or puppeteer (depending on the initial setup) to:

{
  "e2e": {
    "builder": "@puppeteer/ng-schematics:puppeteer",
    "options": {
      "commands": [...],
      "devServerTarget": "sandbox:serve",
      "testRunner": "<TestRunner>",
      "port": 8080
    },
    ...
}

Now update the E2E test file utils.ts baseUrl to:

const baseUrl = 'http://localhost:8080';

Contributing

Check out our contributing guide to get an overview of what you need to develop in the Puppeteer repo.

Sandbox smoke tests

To make integration easier smoke test can be run with a single command, that will create a fresh install of Angular (single application and a multi application projects). Then it will install the schematics inside them and run the initial e2e tests:

node tools/smoke.mjs

Unit Testing

The schematics utilize @angular-devkit/schematics/testing for verifying correct file creation and package.json updates. To execute the test suit:

npm

npm run test

Yarn

yarn run test

pnpm

pnpm run test

Migrating from Protractor

Entry point

Puppeteer has its own browser that exposes the browser process. A more close comparison for Protractor's browser would be Puppeteer's page.

// Testing framework specific imports

import {setupBrowserHooks, getBrowserState} from './utils';

describe('<Test Name>', function () {
  setupBrowserHooks();
  it('is running', async function () {
    const {page} = getBrowserState();
    // Query elements
    await page
      .locator('my-component')
      // Click on the element once found
      .click();
  });
});

Getting element properties

You can easily get any property of the element.

// Testing framework specific imports

import {setupBrowserHooks, getBrowserState} from './utils';

describe('<Test Name>', function () {
  setupBrowserHooks();
  it('is running', async function () {
    const {page} = getBrowserState();
    // Query elements
    const elementText = await page
      .locator('.my-component')
      .map(button => button.innerText)
      // Wait for element to show up
      .wait();

    // Assert via assertion library
  });
});

Query Selectors

Puppeteer supports multiple types of selectors, namely, the CSS, ARIA, text, XPath and pierce selectors. The following table shows Puppeteer's equivalents to Protractor By.

For improved reliability and reduced flakiness try our Experimental Locators API

By	Protractor code	Puppeteer querySelector
CSS (Single)	$(by.css('<CSS>'))	page.$('<CSS>')
CSS (Multiple)	$$(by.css('<CSS>'))	page.$$('<CSS>')
Id	$(by.id('<ID>'))	page.$('#<ID>')
CssContainingText	$(by.cssContainingText('<CSS>', '<TEXT>'))	page.$('<CSS> ::-p-text(<TEXT>)') `
DeepCss	$(by.deepCss('<CSS>'))	page.$(':scope >>> <CSS>')
XPath	$(by.xpath('<XPATH>'))	page.$('::-p-xpath(<XPATH>)')
JS	$(by.js('document.querySelector("<CSS>")'))	page.evaluateHandle(() => document.querySelector('<CSS>'))

For advanced use cases such as Protractor's by.addLocator you can check Puppeteer's Custom selectors.

Actions Selectors

Puppeteer allows you to all necessary actions to allow test your application.

// Click on the element.
element(locator).click();
// Puppeteer equivalent
await page.locator(locator).click();

// Send keys to the element (usually an input).
element(locator).sendKeys('my text');
// Puppeteer equivalent
await page.locator(locator).fill('my text');

// Clear the text in an element (usually an input).
element(locator).clear();
// Puppeteer equivalent
await page.locator(locator).fill('');

// Get the value of an attribute, for example, get the value of an input.
element(locator).getAttribute('value');
// Puppeteer equivalent
const element = await page.locator(locator).waitHandle();
const value = await element.getProperty('value');

Example

Sample Protractor test:

describe('Protractor Demo', function () {
  it('should add one and two', function () {
    browser.get('http://juliemr.github.io/protractor-demo/');
    element(by.model('first')).sendKeys(1);
    element(by.model('second')).sendKeys(2);

    element(by.id('gobutton')).click();

    expect(element(by.binding('latest')).getText()).toEqual('3');
  });
});

Sample Puppeteer migration:

import {setupBrowserHooks, getBrowserState} from './utils';

describe('Puppeteer Demo', function () {
  setupBrowserHooks();
  it('should add one and two', function () {
    const {page} = getBrowserState();
    await page.goto('http://juliemr.github.io/protractor-demo/');

    await page.locator('.form-inline > input:nth-child(1)').fill('1');
    await page.locator('.form-inline > input:nth-child(2)').fill('2');
    await page.locator('#gobutton').fill('2');

    const result = await page
      .locator('.table tbody td:last-of-type')
      .map(header => header.innerText)
      .wait();

    expect(result).toEqual('3');
  });
});