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Is there a way to check if an element is present without using expect with Detox? Right now I'm having to nest my logic in try/catch blocks to control the flow of a test to mitigate flakiness as it checks the state of a screen before moving forward with the test. I would much rather be able to do with using if/else.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Not the most elegant solution but I have used the following to stream line my code.

In a helper file, I create functions that wrap the try/catch, and return true/false:

For example:

const expectToBeVisible = async (id) => 
 try 
 await expect(element(by.id(id))).toBeVisible();
 return true;
 catch (e) 
 return false;
 
;

module.exports = expectToBeVisible ;

Then when I am performing tests that depend on that element being visible or not I can do the following:

import expectToBeVisible from './helpers';

describe('Test', () => 

 ...

 it('If button is visible do X else do Y', async () => 
 let buttonVisible = await expectToBeVisible('button');

 if (buttonVisible) 
 // do something with that button
 else 
 // do something else as the button isn't visible
 
 );

 ...
);

This isn't the best solution but until Detox come up with the ability to have if/else then it could suffice in a pinch.