How to configure Protractor (JS) for running tests in Microsoft Edge?

Question

I want to set my protractor.conf.js to run tests in Edge instead of in Chrome. Setting this

capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'MicrosoftEdge'
}

results in SessionNotCreatedError: Unable to create new service: EdgeDriverService with an error code of 199. I downloaded the MicrosoftWebDriver.exe for the version of Edge that I have from Microsoft's website, but I can't figure out how to tell Protractor where to find that driver. I've tried adding it to my user path, my system path, the selenium folder in protractor's node modules folder, and giving a jvmArgs: or seleniumArgs: of ['-Dwebdriver.edge.driver="<path-to-driver"'], but I still get that SessionNotCreatedError.

I'm only writing pure JavaScript, no Java or C#, and I want all of this to be set as attributes in the protractor.conf.js file, nothing set in the actual file of tests. I have the most recent version of Node, and I'm making sure to have Edge closed when running ng e2e. What do I need to change or add to my config file to get this to run?

EDIT: From this github issue, I added seleniumAddress: http://127.0.01:17556/ to my config file, but now I'm getting an ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:17556 error with error code 135. I got that address from one of the comments on that github issue, but I get the same error regardless of starting the Edge driver manually or just running ng e2e --config <path-to-config>.

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SOLUTION
Add seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub' to the config file. Run the edge driver manually with webdriver-manager start --edge "<path-to-driver>\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe", and then run ng e2e in another window. Thank you so much to HaC for this solution!

Answer 1

Reference : https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/2377

1. Download and install Edge driver
2. Run webdriver-manager start --edge "C:\path_to_the_driver\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe" . By default this will start your selenium server on port 4444 which should be open to you.
3. In your protractor config file: add seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub'