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Setting Up Protractor
Prerequisites
Node.js

Protractor is a Node.js program. To run Protractor, you will need to have Node.js installed. Check the version of node you have by running node ‐‐
version . It should be greater than v0.10.0.

Node.js comes with the Protractor npm package, which you can use to install Protractor.

Installing Protractor
Use npm to install Protractor globally (omit the -g if you’d prefer not to install globally):

npm install ‐g protractor

Check that Protractor is working by running protractor ‐‐version .

The Protractor install includes the following:

protractor command line tool

webdriver‐manager command line tool
Protractor API (library)