Replace Protractor with Cypress

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Desired Use Case

Protractor is deprecated. Angular submitted an issue talking about the deprecation timeline and possible replacements for e2e testing. Cypress currently holds the highest market share and should be considered as an option for replacing Protractor.

Although something to consider is the pricing model of Cypress. Make sure that it can fulfill the needs of the project.

Actual/Current Behavior

Currently Protractor is no longer updated and will soon not work with newer version of angular.

Steps to Implement This Feature

1. Getting started with Cypress

Pre-Testing TODOs

1. Start up the boilerplate project.

Testing Steps

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Running ng e2e will show give you the result.

Protractor has been deprecated including its support in the Angular CLI. For additional information and alternatives, please see angular/protractor#5502.

Learning

Angular retiring Protractor
Overview of Cypress Docs