Package.json In Protractor To Manage Dependencies And Execution

We use package.json to manage dependencies and execution of node project.
Protractor is also a node package so we can use it for better project management.

Step 1:

Create the blank package.json file using the following commands command should be executed within the project structure.

    npm init -y

After executing this command package.json file should be created under the project structure

{

  "name": "Protractor",

  "version": "1.0.0",

  "description": "",

  "main": "index.js",

  "scripts": {

    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"

  },

  "keywords": [],

  "author": "",

  "license": "ISC"

}

Step 2:




Now we can add the following dependencies for Protractor.

    "dependencies": {

        "protractor": "5.4.2",

        "jasmine": "3.4.0",

        "protractor-jasmine2-html-reporter": "0.0.7",

        "log4js": "5.1.0",

        "log4js-protractor-appender": "1.1.2"

    },

Step 3:

Execute the following command from project directory to download the all dependencies for this project.

    npm install

Step 4:

We can see the node_modules folder automatically created after successful completion of the above command.