Protractor `elementExplorer` debugger and element explorer cannot be used for Node.js 8+ since it relied on `_debugger` module.
In protractor version 5, this resulted in the below error:
```
** Angular Live Development Server is listening on localhost:4200, open your browser on http://localhost:4200/ **
: Compiled successfully.
[10:25:35] I/direct - Using ChromeDriver directly...
[10:25:37] I/protractor -
[10:25:37] I/protractor - ------- Element Explorer -------
[10:25:37] I/protractor - Starting WebDriver debugger in a child process. Element Explorer is still beta, please report issues at github.com/angular/protractor
[10:25:37] I/protractor -
[10:25:37] I/protractor - Type <tab> to see a list of locator strategies.
[10:25:37] I/protractor - Use the `list` helper function to find elements by strategy:
[10:25:37] I/protractor - e.g., list(by.binding('')) gets all bindings.
[10:25:37] I/protractor -
***********************************************************
* WARNING: _debugger module not available on Node.js 8 *
* and higher. *
* *
* Use 'debugger' keyword instead: *
* https://goo.gl/MvWqFh *
***********************************************************
/Users/alanagius/cli-repos/demo-several/node_modules/protractor/built/debugger/debuggerCommons.js:14
throw e;
^
Error: Cannot find module '_debugger'
Require stack:
- /Users/alanagius/cli-repos/demo-several/node_modules/protractor/built/debugger/debuggerCommons.js
- /Users/alanagius/cli-repos/demo-several/node_modules/protractor/built/debugger/clients/explorer.js
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:980:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:862:27)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1042:19)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:77:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/alanagius/cli-repos/demo-several/node_modules/protractor/built/debugger/debuggerCommons.js:3:18)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1156:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1176:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1000:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:899:14)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1042:19) {
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
requireStack: [
'/Users/alanagius/cli-repos/demo-several/node_modules/protractor/built/debugger/debuggerCommons.js',
'/Users/alanagius/cli-repos/demo-several/node_modules/protractor/built/debugger/clients/explorer.js'
]
}
```
but in protractor version 7, this logic was removed.
BREAKING CHANGE:
Protractor builder elementExplorer option has been removed. This was not compatable with the Node.Js versions that the Angular CLI supports. See: https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/debugging.md#enabled-control-flow for an alternative debugging methods.
Pass the "grep" and "invertGrep" flags through to the Angular Protractor
builder as "jasmineNodeOpts" so that individual specs within an E2E test
file can be targeted.
Fixes#13020
The webdriver-manager package is a direct dependency of protractor. The only guaranteed method to resolve the webdriver-manager package in this case is to resolve it from a base of the protractor location.
Remove the manually maintained schema.d.ts from the browser builder, and use
the Schema JSON file to generate it. This had a lot of repercussions around
the whole build-angular code base and the different interfaces that were
manually kept.
