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TARIF ABBAS
TARIF ABBAS

Reputation: 29

How to run protractor starting with node command?

I am looking for a way, where i can run Protractor program by starting from node command. Something like:- node protractor conf.js instead of protractor conf.js

Upvotes: 2

Views: 482

Answers (1)

Michael Radionov
Michael Radionov

Reputation: 13309

For local installation:

$ node node_modules/.bin/protractor conf.js

For global installation (Linux, Mac):

$ node $(which protractor) conf.js

npm moves executable files, which represent a package, to node_modules/.bin directory after package installation. Most of the times it is an executable JS file, you'll be fine passing it directly to node. Pretty the same logic is behind a global installation, but in this case you don't know actual path to the executable. There is a utility command which for Linux and Macs - it returns a path to a binary for a globally available command, in my case it returns:

$ which protractor
$ /home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.2/bin/protractor

It is possible to evaluate a sub-expression using $(some expression), so node will receive a path to executable, so the result would be:

$ node /home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.2/bin/protractor conf.js

Upvotes: 2

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