Protractor how to run login test script first

Question

I am trying to test an Angular Single Page application with protractor. I need to run the login script first. Only then I can move to other routes since there is a check for tok

Answer 1

As highlighted in the Protractor FAQs, you can specify your login code in the onPrepare section of your conf file. Here is an example.

You can also achieve this in beforeAll but that adds unnecessary overhead to your test scripts. Altering the localStorage is possible, but not in the spirit of e2e testing since a lot can go wrong wrt LS, and you will end up wondering if it is your app or your LS modification code that caused this.