What's New in NightwatchJS -🎃 October edition 🎃

Latest updates, features and releases

Welcome to the tenth post in a monthly series that summarises the happenings in the world of Nightwatch and helps you test better.

NEW FEATURES AND RELEASES

NightwatchJS V3.2.0

We are happy to announce the latest release of NightwatchJS. This has a few bug fixes and 2 new features around `waitUntil` commands. I hope you find those useful.

The main update in this version is the update to Selenium which includes the latest Selenium Manager. You can read the rest of the change log on GitHub

Selenium Manager

The Selenium Project released Selenium Manager that gets bundled with all client bindings. Since Nightwatch has a dependency on Selenium we get all the goodness that goes into that project as well. It’s so good that you can forget about it now and just delete your references to `geckodriver` and `chromedriver` from you `package.json`. Due to how `node_modules` keeps everything cached you might want to delete that and then run `npm i` again to make sure that everything is up to date. It will even make sure that your browsers are in place if it can’t find them.

HacktoberFest

This year NightwatchJS is participating in HacktoberFest. We have some repositories set up for contributions. We will be adding more repositories and issues throughout the month so you can make sure to reach your 4 accepted PRs!

Come join our #hacktoberfest channel on our discord to discuss how you can help!

YouTube

We have been releasing a number of videos on our YouTube Channel. If you haven’t subscribed please do so to get notified when they come out.

Finally…

We have done a number of significant updates and releases across the various projects we manage. Make sure you update to the latest versions! We have a number of great features coming over the next month. 

Tell us your suggestions on Github or if you want to discuss something with us or have ideas to improve this post, hit us up on Discord. P.s. If you become our 400, 500, 600 and so on, member on Discord, we’ll send you a small gift!

Check out more updates in our release notes.