docs: add Requirements to Installation and correct the scaffold walkthrough - #286
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…hrough The Getting Started page had no prerequisites at all, so `npx mobilewright test` fails on a clean machine with nothing to explain why. Xcode, a booted simulator, ANDROID_HOME and adb were never mentioned outside of guides/troubleshooting.md, which a new user only reaches after the first failed run. - Add a Requirements section before install, plus `mobilewright doctor` as the setup check. Versions match the thresholds doctor enforces: Node >= 18, macOS >= 13, JDK >= 11, Windows 11. - Correct the scaffold walkthrough to match what create-mobilewright 1.0.10 actually produces. It is interactive (language, test dir, bundle ID), runs npm install itself, and writes tests/example.spec.ts with a config containing testDir/bundleId/reporter -- not the platform/deviceName/ installApps/timeout config the page showed, and not example.test.ts. - Move the device/app options into their own section so they are still documented, with a pointer to Configuration. - Note that mobilecli ships bundled, so nobody installs it separately. - Add a What's next block. - writing-tests.md: say how to run the test it just walked you through.
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In `@docs/src/getting-started/intro.md`:
- Around line 74-75: Update the diagnostic output example around the “Summary”
line so its count matches the 13 visible check marks, or add the missing checks
needed to substantiate 17; keep the example internally consistent with the
displayed doctor output.
- Around line 108-117: Update the “deliberately minimal” generated
mobilewright.config.ts example and the associated device-pinning statement to
match the actual scaffold produced by the template, including its platform,
deviceName, and timeout settings while removing unsupported testDir and reporter
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In `@docs/src/getting-started/writing-tests.md`:
- Line 147: Update the test file naming instruction near testDir to document
JavaScript suffixes alongside the existing TypeScript suffixes, covering the
supported .js, .ts, and .mjs patterns defined by MobilewrightConfig.testMatch.
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…scaffold split - The doctor example printed 13 checks but summarised '17 ok'. 17 is the real count gatherChecks() returns on macOS; the pasted sample was abridged. Added the four missing lines (JAVA_HOME, ADB Devices, Android SDK Platforms, Android Build Tools) so the block matches the tool. Fixed in both copies -- guides/troubleshooting.md had the same inconsistency. - writing-tests.md told JavaScript users to name files .test.ts/.spec.ts. The scaffold offers JavaScript and the default testMatch covers .js/.ts/.mjs, so the instruction now names the suffix and the extensions separately. - test/cli.md attributed 'writes example.test.ts to the current directory, existing files are not overwritten' to 'npm init mobilewright@latest'. That is 'mobilewright init' behaviour (cli.ts, templates/). Corrected the command and cross-linked the two scaffolds in both directions, since the collision between them is what made this section wrong in the first place.
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…ion instead 034d629 ("docs: fixed scaffold a project command") deliberately changed this section from `npx mobilewright init` to `npm init mobilewright`, and 059ab1d pinned it to @latest. Swapping the command back undid that decision. The stale half was the description, not the command: it described `mobilewright init` behaviour (writes example.test.ts to cwd, skips existing files) under the `npm init` command. Corrected the description to what create-mobilewright actually does and left the command as chosen. Also drops the note added to intro.md contrasting the two commands, since it existed to disambiguate a command the docs intentionally do not cover.
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A new user cannot get from
npm initto a green test. Two problems, both on the Installation page:1. There are no prerequisites anywhere in Getting Started. Xcode, a booted simulator,
ANDROID_HOME,adb, a running emulator — none of them are mentioned. On a clean machinenpx mobilewright testfails with nothing to explain why.mobilewright doctoralready checks exactly this list, but it lives at the bottom ofguides/troubleshooting.md, which a new user only reaches after the first failed run.The page is otherwise modelled on Playwright's
/docs/intro, which ends with a System requirements section. That omission costs us more than it would cost Playwright:npx playwright installprovisions the browsers, so their happy path really does work on a clean machine. We can't provision a simulator or the Android SDK, so the requirements we don't list are exactly the ones that break the first run.2. The scaffold walkthrough doesn't match what the scaffold produces. Checked against
create-mobilewright@1.0.10:npm init mobilewright@latestactually doesnpm installfor youtests/example.test.tstests/example.spec.tsplatform,deviceName,installApps,timeouttestDir,bundleId,reporter— none of the other fournpm install mobilewright @mobilewright/testfirstpackage.jsonand installsThe "skipped" behaviour described is
mobilewright init(the in-repo templates), notcreate-mobilewright. So someone following along sees different files than the page shows, and the config example points at./builds/myapp.ipa, a build they don't have.What changed
Requirementssection before install. Version floors match whatdoctorenforces (commands/doctor.ts): Node >= 18, macOS >= 13, JDK >= 11, Windows 11 (build >= 22000). Notes that Linux does Android via the existing Docker image, and that mobilecli ships bundled so nobody installs it separately.Check your setup— pulls thenpx mobilewright doctorblock up from Troubleshooting, with a link back for the--jsonhalf.Installing MobilewrightandDirectory layoutto matchcreate-mobilewright@1.0.10, plus the direct-install path for an existingpackage.json.Choosing a device and installing your appsection soplatform/deviceName/installApps/timeoutstay documented, now labelled as options you add rather than as the scaffold's output.What's nextblock.writing-tests.md— the page walks you through writing a test and never says how to run it. Added a short section that does.Notes
packages/mobilewright/src/{config,cli}.ts,commands/doctor.ts, andmobile-next/create-mobilewright@1.0.10. All relative links follow the file-relative convention used incloud-providers/and resolve to existing files.Not fixed here, still open
Welcomeagainstcom.example.myapp. Playwright scaffolds against a public demo site; our equivalent would be a downloadable demo.app/.apk, or defaulting to a preinstalled system app. That needs a product call and an artifact, not a docs edit — so this PR just warns the reader that the assertion won't match their app.## Running testsstill shows only a screenshot, so a reader can't tell success from silence. I didn't want to invent terminal output.create-mobilewrightpinsmobilewright@0.0.51increatePackageJson, while latest is0.0.55. Different repo, not a docs issue, but worth a look.