As I remember it Protractor was just a wrapper around WebDriver with some glue code to wait for Angular doing its thing after data changes. If you're using e.g.

As I remember it Protractor was just a wrapper around WebDriver with some glue code to wait for Angular doing its thing after data changes. If you're using e.g. React or anything else that does not do dirty checking, you should still be able to use WebDriver. (That said, that's certainly still flaky enough.)