Better @nrwl/nx-plugin testing utils

[ZachJW34]

Description

Hey nrwl team! I'm the author of the nx-plus plugins

The utils provided from @nrwl/nx-plugin for testing purposes work pretty well but I've noticed a few things:

• There is no option for providing what package manager to use when invoking cli commands. I use yarn in my repo but CIinvokes npm when scaffolding tmp projects.
• I have to strip ansii colors from command output

It seems like all of these problems have been solved by the internal tooling located in e2e/utils. It would be great if either the nx-plugin package was updated or these utils were published instead. The code in both locations looks the same, so a good chance to remove some duplication.

Motivation

Make it easier for plugin authors to e2e test their plugins

Suggested Implementation

Update @nrwl/nx-plugin/testing to have the same API as e2e/utils. It would be nice as a plugin author to use the same API used internally to test plugins.

Alternate Implementations

Either reuse the same code in both locations or do a good ol copy and paste if the team wants to keep their e2e utils internal.

[jkavalec]

This is rather unpleasant, everything is there, but you cant use it for testing your plugins 😞

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[Bielik20]

Coming from https://github.com/nrwl/nx/issues/4851 (as it is closed) To anyone interested I decided to share my PR using newly added verdaccio to handle multiple dependant projects in e2e: https://github.com/Bielik20/nx-plugins/pull/98

It is mostly basen on the code generated by Nx (when creating new plugin with e2e tests) but I have adjusted it to not publish every package in repository, only the dependant ones and to work with classic methods from @nrwl/nx-plugin/testing etc. It is still a bit slower than the previous setup but closer to the end user experience so I think it is worth it.

Note: I do not maintain @ns3/nx-core under semantic release. It is mostly a bunch of features for other packages I have in this repository so I recommend copying code from @ns3/nx-core instead of installing it.

[khalilou88]

Hope this issue will be resolved, i need many functions from nx e2e testing like runNxCommandUntil.

[FrozenPandaz]

Our e2e testing strategy for plugins has changed quite a bit since we released the verdaccio support.

If you want any e2e testing utils, please create a new issue for the specific util you would like.

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