Nightwatch 2.0.0 is released

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The public NPM release of Nightwatch 2.0 is here and can be installed directly with:

npm i nightwatch --save-dev

Over the past few weeks we have worked tirelessly to finalise the apis, add a few more examples, and try and smooth over any rough edges.

Important Changes

• Added a new plugin API; check out the docs for how to create a Nightwatch plugin: nightwatchjs.org/guide/extending-nightwatch/plugin-api.html
• Added support for using nightwatch.conf.cjs as config file for projects that use ES Modules
• Upgraded chai expect to version 5 and added support for using regular chai browser.expect() assertions; this doesn't affect the existing expect.element(), expect.elements(), expect.cookie(), expect.title(), and expect.url().
  • Example:

  const infoElement = element('.info');
  expect(infoElement.property('innerHTML'))
    .to.be.a('string')
    .and.to.include('validation code');

  See examples/tests/shadowRootExample.js for the complete example.

Improvements

• Added several new assertions:
  • titleEquals
  • titleMatches
  • urlMatches
  • textMatches
  • textEquals
  • domPropertyMatches
  • attributeMatches
  • valueEquals
  • hasClass
  • hasAttribute
  • elementsCount
• Added new element commands:
  • getFirstElementChild
  • getNextSibling
  • getPreviousSibling
  • hasDescendants
  • isPresent
• Added new API mouse actions:
  • clickAndHold
  • rightClick
  • releaseMouseButton
• Added new --devtools CLI flag to open the Chrome Devtools automatically

Fixes

• Fixed V2 - Error TypeError: Cannot read property 'toLowerCase' of undefined at new Promise (<anonymous>) when running tests with AWS device farm settings #2955 - an issue caused by missing the browserName capability
• Fixed fixed an issue with creating the log folder for writing the webdriver logs (2cff6df)

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This discussion was created from the release v2.0.0.