How to set default browser window size in Protractor/WebdriverJS

Question

For some reason when I run my tests at work the browser is maximized, but when I run them at home it only opens a browser window of about 50% width. This causes some discrep

Answer 1

I simply added the code below in my protractor.conf.js file and it did work fine.

onPrepare: function() {
    var width = 1600;
    var height = 1200;
    browser.driver.manage().window().setSize(width, height);
},

What purpose does the setTimeout and executeScript serve in your answer? I struggle to find best practices in the protractor documentation...

To my mind, using directly maximize() is a bad idea and should not be the preferred method, since it would not set the same size on every machine where the tests are executed and could break responsive behaviours.