Nightwatch to Support ES6 and Promises

[Eyal Cohen]

Hi,

We want to start our webdriver js tests and we have some questions:

1) When and if nightwatch will support ES6 (ECMAScript 6)?

2) What about promises? does nightwatch support it?

Thanks,

[Andrei Rusu]

Hi,

Both of those items are on our roadmap. Promises will be added in v0.8 (along with mocha support) and possibly ES6 soon also.

Andrei

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[Eyal Cohen]

Thanks for the very quick reply.

Any estimation about the date?

[Andrei Rusu]

It could take a few weeks, potentially longer now with the Summer and holiday season :).

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[Mek]

Hi guys,

Can you please let me know what is the scope of Mocha support ?

Is it that Mocha can run NW tests or NW can run mocha tests.

We are also looking into this since it is a possibility that these 2 tools need to co-exists.

Thank you!
- Mek

[Andrei Rusu]

Mocha can run Nightwatch tests. Actually promises support might be postponed because it turns out it wouldn't help much with Mocha, as in the api wouldn't be very nice.

[GrayedFox]

Hey Andrei,

Any word on ES6 support? Writing a bunch of tests at the moment and string interpolation and object/array destructuring assignment would be a god send right now haha

[Dave King]

Hi! We use Nightwatch with Babel currently, it "just works". All you
have to do is
require('babel/register'); at the top of your nightwatch.conf.js.

This doesn't promisify the Nightwatch/Selenium interface but it lets
you do things like use string interpolation, destructuring assignment,
etc.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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[mbixby]

Regarding promisifying commands, would you accept a PR implementing something akin to https://theintern.github.io/leadfoot/Command.html? Or do you have something else in mind?

We want to implement it to simplify live inspection of tests cases – breakpoint in a test case should stop between commands (failed command should pause automatically) and the developer should be able to issue more commands to the browser without knowledge of the queueing mechanism.

[GrayedFox]

Any word on promises? I'm using them with some success at the moment but now am running into problems... not sure if it's my code or Nightwatch at the moment, but I think I'm able to crash the Nightwatch window without stopping the actual test runner (took me a while to figure it out).

[GreenAsJade]

I note that it is now 'babel-core/register'.

When I do requre('babel-core/register');, at the top of nightwatch.conf.js unfortunately, ES6 in my test files is not understood though.

Help?

Thanks!