NEED Chrome Browser Update - Spectron 13 - app.start() never resolves

Hi! I’m trying to setup e2e tests with Spectron and I got some issues.

When I start my tests with:

  beforeEach(async () => {
    app = new Application({
      path: path.resolve(
        __dirname,
        '..',
        'out/type-relectron-darwin-x64/type-relectron.app/Contents/MacOS/type-relectron',
      ),
    })
    await app.start()
    console.log('app.start()')
  })

It keeps opening new windows and app.start() never resolve, it never logs “app.start()”.

I added some console.log in the node_modules/spectron/lib/application.js file to check how far it goes.

Application.prototype.start = function () {
const self = this;
return self
  .exists()
  .then(function () {
    console.log('self.startChromeDriver();')
    return self.startChromeDriver();
  })
  .then(function () {
    console.log('self.createClient();')
    return self.createClient();
  })
  .then(function () {
    console.log('self.api.initialize();')
    return self.api.initialize();
  })
  .then(function () {
    console.log('self.client.setTimeouts(')
    return self.client.setTimeouts(
      self.waitTimeout,
      self.waitTimeout,
      self.waitTimeout
    );
  })
  .then(function () {
    console.log('self.running = true;')
    self.running = true;
  })
  .then(function () {
    console.log('return self;')
    return self;
  }).catch(err => {
    console.log(err)
  });
};

It never go pass self.createClient(); and with a newly added .catch it gives me this error.

Error: Failed to create session.
    session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 87
    Current browser version is 78.0.3904.126 with binary path /Users/mikaelboutin/Desktop/Qohash/electron-react-ts-starter/node_modules/spectron/lib/launcher.js
        at Object.startWebDriverSession (/Users/mikaelboutin/Desktop/Qohash/electron-react-ts-starter/node_modules/webdriver/build/utils.js:34:15)
        at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
        at Function.newSession (/Users/mikaelboutin/Desktop/Qohash/electron-react-ts-starter/node_modules/webdriver/build/index.js:35:45)
        at Object.<anonymous>.exports.remote (/Users/mikaelboutin/Desktop/Qohash/electron-react-ts-starter/node_modules/webdriverio/build/index.js:53:22)

Can you make something about this or show me the way to get a Chrome version 87 with Spectron?

Thank you

[jtoy]

so no one is using electron and spectron recently?

[quasivivo]

I see a similar error with Spectron 13, Electron 11.2.0 & chrome 87.0.4280.141 when trying to reference the app.start() return object. Is there a temporary workaround for this?

let testApp = await app.start(); … javascript error: javascript error: Cannot convert undefined or null to object (Session info: chrome=87.0.4280.141)