Navigating through a site

If you look at how you navigate through different pages on a browser, there are basically four ways:

• You type a URL in the address bar or using a bookmark.
• You use the browser functions to go back, forward, or reload a page.
• You click on elements on a page.
• The site you are browsing redirects to another page.

The goto function emulates the first option, navigating to a site. We use that to navigate to the page we want to test:

await this.page.goto(this.config.baseURL + 'login');

Now, guess what? The goto signature isn't goto(url) but goto(url, options). You will see this pattern being repeated over and over – a function with one or more required arguments (or none), and then a set of extra options.

Luckily for us, the options goto expects is not as big as the one we saw in the launch options. It only has three options:

• timeout: Maximum navigation time in milliseconds.
• waitUntil: When to...