Headless Tests in Nightwatch JS
The Nightwatch documentation unfortunately does not cover how to run your tests in a headless mode so I thought it would be worth writing a small post about it. For those of you that are not familiar with the term ‘headless’ it simply means running a automated browser window that does not physically appear anywhere on your machine.
To enable headless this headless mode you’ll want to add ”headless” to your ”chromeOptions” like so:
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That’s all it takes to initiate a headless mode in Nightwatch. Hopefully this is able to help some of my fellow Nightwatch users out.
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