Nightwatch v2.0-alpha is Released!

Nightwatch v2.0 is now in alpha and available in NPM.

Hey there,

This week we announced on Twitter the release of a major update for Nightwatch – the v2.0 in alpha.

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📣We're delighted to announce that Nightwatch v2.0 is now in alpha and available in NPM. 🥳 🚀Install with: npm i nightwatch@alpha 🪧Details about new features, improvements, and other changes in this blog post: nightwatchjs.org/blog/nightwatc…Nightwatch v2.0-alpha is Released | Nightwatch.js BlogNightwatch v2.0 is now in alpha and available in NPM.nightwatchjs.org

September 8th 2021

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The alpha version of Nightwatch v2 can be installed from NPM by running the following:

npm i nightwatch@alpha

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Nightwatch v2 contains a wide range of new features and improvements for writing and running tests as well as full cross-browser testing support for W3C WebDriver compliant browsers.

The underlying architecture has been completely reworked to use the official selenium-webdriver Node.js library in communicating with the browser drivers. This means better cross-browser integration, more reliable DOM element command handling, and overall more stable and faster tests.

The goal of the alpha release is to gather some feedback, identify, and fix major bugs while at the same time finalize the new APIs and also update the documentation. So it's quite important that you let us know of any major issues encountered so we can make the upgrade from v1.x as smooth as possible. There are a few breaking changes that are mentioned at the end of this post, but they should be relatively small.

We'll also continue to issue patches and important fixes for the existing v1.7 version.

Here’s a list of the new features, improvements, and other changes in v2.0:

• New features

  • support for the WebDriver Actions API

  • support for Chrome DevTools protocol

  • support for Firefox specific commands

  • new "ensure" assertions

  • new element() global and support for using WebElements

  • support for using the Selenium "driver" object directly

  • support for using WebDriver BiDi

  • new API commands

    • getAccessibleName()

    • getAriaRole()

    • takeElementScreenshot()

    • uploadFile()

    • waitUntil()

• Improvements

  • Using async/await

  • Defining WebDriver capabilities

  • Using try/catch

• New config settings

  • WebDriver settings

• Breaking changes

More info is available in this blog post or in the release notes on Github. Feel free to leave a comment about the release on the Github Discussions page.