How to Use Protractor on Non Angularjs Website

how to use Protractor on non angularjs website?

If your test needs to interact with a non-angular page, access the webdriver instance directly with browser.driver.

Example from Protractor docs

browser.driver.get('http://localhost:8000/login.html');

browser.driver.findElement(by.id('username')).sendKeys('Jane');
browser.driver.findElement(by.id('password')).sendKeys('1234');
browser.driver.findElement(by.id('clickme')).click();

Use protractor to test login on non-AngularJS page

Testing non-angular pages with Protractor can be tricky regarding waiting for stuff.

I suggest you upgrade Protractor to latest (1.5.0 as of now), use a custom function waitReady() that browser.wait for elements ready and rewrite your test like below.

// TODO: use page objects
var loginNameInputElm = $('#login_field'); // or element(by.id('login_field'))
var passwordInputElm = $('#password'); // same as element(by.id('password'))
var loginBtnElm = $('button[type=submit]');

it('non-angular page so ignore sync and active wait to load', function() {
    browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;
    browser.get(process.env.HOST + '/auth/github');
    expect(loginNameInputElm.waitReady()).toBeTruthy();
    expect(passwordInputElm.waitReady()).toBeTruthy();
});

it('should fill user and password and logins', function() {
    loginNameInputElm.sendKeys(process.env.USERNAME);
    passwordInputElm.sendKeys(process.env.PASSWORD);
    loginBtnElm.click();
});

it('restores ignore sync when switching back to angular pages', function() {
    browser.ignoreSynchronization = false; // restore
    browser.get('/some-angular-page');
});

More details of why waitReady here.

Note: in the past I've suggested setting a high implicit, e.g.

browser.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5000);

That hack allows to you avoid waitReady and keep using the standard

expect(loginNameInputElm.isPresent()).toBeTruthy();

But has an ugly disadvantage when testing for elements NOT present, i.e. when testing for absent or non visible elements in which case it will wait 5 seconds (5000ms) in vane, e.g. when doing

expect(someNonExistingElm.isPresent()).toBeFalsy();

Test login with protractor on a non angular page

You need to use

browser.driver.get 

instead of browser.get for Non-Angular pages. Also, you need to set

browser.driver.ignoreSynchronization = true in the beforeEach() function

I have added a page for non-angular pages. You can refer to the same:
https://github.com/sakshisingla/Protractor-Non-Angular-Tests/wiki/Creating-test-scripts-using-Protractor-for-non-angular-application

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