Setting Up Protractor

🔗Prerequisites

Node.js

Protractor is a Node.js program. To run Protractor, you will need to have Node.js installed. Check the version of node you have by running node --version. It should be greater than v0.10.0.

Node.js comes with the Protractor npm package, which you can use to install Protractor.

🔗Installing Protractor

Use npm to install Protractor globally (omit the -g if you’d prefer not to install globally):

npm install -g protractor

Check that Protractor is working by running protractor --version.

The Protractor install includes the following:

• protractor command line tool
• webdriver-manager command line tool
• Protractor API (library)