how to use Protractor on non angularjs website?

Question

I have found Protractor framework which is made for AngularJS web applications.

How can I use Protractor on a website which is not using AngularJS?

I wrote my first test and Protractor triggers this message:

Error: Angular could not be found on the page https://www.stratexapp.com/ : retries looking for angular exceeded 

Answer 1

Another approach is to set browser.ignoreSynchronization = true before browser.get(...). Protractor wouldn't wait for Angular loaded and you could use usual element(...) syntax.

browser.ignoreSynchronization = true; browser.get('http://localhost:8000/login.html');  element(by.id('username')).sendKeys('Jane'); element(by.id('password')).sendKeys('1234'); element(by.id('clickme')).click(); 

Answer 2

If your test needs to interact with a non-angular page, access the webdriver instance directly with browser.driver.

Example from Protractor docs

browser.driver.get('http://localhost:8000/login.html');  browser.driver.findElement(by.id('username')).sendKeys('Jane'); browser.driver.findElement(by.id('password')).sendKeys('1234'); browser.driver.findElement(by.id('clickme')).click();