refactor(@angular-devkit/build-angular): remove protractor

Remove Protractor since it's no longer supported and has been deprecated since v19; Remove the dependency.

Author: hawkgs

goldens/public-api/angular_devkit/build_angular/index.api.md

@@ -173,9 +173,6 @@ export function executeKarmaBuilder(options: KarmaBuilderOptions, context: Build
 // @public
 export function executeNgPackagrBuilder(options: NgPackagrBuilderOptions, context: BuilderContext): Observable<BuilderOutput>;
 
-// @public
-export function executeProtractorBuilder(options: ProtractorBuilderOptions, context: BuilderContext): Promise<BuilderOutput>;
-
 // @public
 export function executeServerBuilder(options: ServerBuilderOptions, context: BuilderContext, transforms?: {
     webpackConfiguration?: ExecutionTransformer<webpack.Configuration>;
@@ -269,20 +266,6 @@ export enum OutputHashing {
     None = "none"
 }
 
-// @public
-export type ProtractorBuilderOptions = {
-    baseUrl?: string;
-    devServerTarget?: string;
-    grep?: string;
-    host?: string;
-    invertGrep?: boolean;
-    port?: number;
-    protractorConfig: string;
-    specs?: string[];
-    suite?: string;
-    webdriverUpdate?: boolean;
-};
-
 // @public (undocumented)
 export type ServerBuilderOptions = {
     assets?: AssetPattern_3[];

modules/testing/builder/projects/hello-world-app/README.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Run `ng test` to execute the unit tests via [Karma](https://karma-runner.github.
 
 ## Running end-to-end tests
 
-Run `ng e2e` to execute the end-to-end tests via [Protractor](http://www.protractortest.org/).
+Run `ng e2e` to setup and run the end-to-end tests.
 
 ## Further help
 

modules/testing/builder/projects/hello-world-app/angular.json

@@ -172,20 +172,6 @@
           }
         }
       }
-    },
-    "app-e2e": {
-      "root": "e2e",
-      "projectType": "application",
-      "targets": {
-        "e2e": {
-          "builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:private-protractor",
-          "options": {
-            "protractorConfig": "protractor.conf.js",
-            "devServerTarget": "app:serve",
-            "webdriverUpdate": false
-          }
-        }
-      }
     }
   }
 }

modules/testing/builder/projects/hello-world-app/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ export const devServerTargetSpec = { project: 'app', target: 'serve' };
 export const extractI18nTargetSpec = { project: 'app', target: 'extract-i18n' };
 export const karmaTargetSpec = { project: 'app', target: 'test' };
 export const tslintTargetSpec = { project: 'app', target: 'lint' };
-export const protractorTargetSpec = { project: 'app-e2e', target: 'e2e' };
 
 export async function createArchitect(workspaceRoot: Path) {
   const registry = new schema.CoreSchemaRegistry();

modules/testing/builder/projects/hello-world-app/e2e/app.po.ts

@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@
     "lodash": "^4.17.21",
     "magic-string": "0.30.21",
     "prettier": "^3.0.0",
-    "protractor": "~7.0.0",
     "puppeteer": "18.2.1",
     "quicktype-core": "23.2.6",
     "rollup": "4.59.0",
@@ -127,7 +126,6 @@
     "rollup-plugin-sourcemaps2": "0.5.6",
     "semver": "7.7.4",
     "source-map-support": "0.5.21",
-    "ts-node": "^10.9.1",
     "tslib": "2.8.1",
     "typescript": "5.9.3",
     "undici": "7.22.0",

modules/testing/builder/projects/hello-world-app/e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json

@@ -44,11 +44,6 @@ ts_json_schema(
     src = "src/builders/karma/schema.json",
 )
 
-ts_json_schema(
-    name = "protractor_schema",
-    src = "src/builders/protractor/schema.json",
-)
-
 ts_json_schema(
     name = "server_schema",
     src = "src/builders/server/schema.json",
@@ -109,7 +104,6 @@ ts_project(
         "//packages/angular_devkit/build_angular:src/builders/karma/schema.ts",
         "//packages/angular_devkit/build_angular:src/builders/ng-packagr/schema.ts",
         "//packages/angular_devkit/build_angular:src/builders/prerender/schema.ts",
-        "//packages/angular_devkit/build_angular:src/builders/protractor/schema.ts",
         "//packages/angular_devkit/build_angular:src/builders/server/schema.ts",
         "//packages/angular_devkit/build_angular:src/builders/ssr-dev-server/schema.ts",
     ],
@@ -321,18 +315,6 @@ LARGE_SPECS = {
             ":node_modules/webpack",
         ],
     },
-    "protractor": {
-        "extra_deps": [
-            "//:node_modules/jasmine-spec-reporter",
-            "//:node_modules/protractor",
-            "//:node_modules/puppeteer",
-            "//:node_modules/ts-node",
-        ],
-        # NB: does not run on rbe because webdriver manager uses an absolute path to chromedriver
-        "tags": ["no-remote-exec"],
-        # NB: multiple shards will compete for port 4200 so limiting to 1
-        "shards": 1,
-    },
     "server": {
         "size": "large",
         "extra_deps": [