diff --git a/angular.json b/angular.json
index df1d20294..636ec70c8 100644
--- a/angular.json
+++ b/angular.json
@@ -125,13 +125,6 @@
       "root": "e2e",
       "projectType": "application",
       "architect": {
-        "e2e": {
-          "builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:protractor",
-          "options": {
-            "protractorConfig": "e2e/protractor.conf.js",
-            "devServerTarget": "angular-electron:serve"
-          }
-        },
         "lint": {
           "builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:tslint",
           "options": {
diff --git a/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts b/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 5cd698f85..000000000
--- a/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-import { AngularElectronPage } from './app.po';
-import { browser, element, by } from 'protractor';
-
-describe('angular-electron App', () => {
-  let page: AngularElectronPage;
-
-  beforeEach(() => {
-    page = new AngularElectronPage();
-  });
-
-  it('should display message saying App works !', () => {
-    page.navigateTo('/');
-    expect(element(by.css('app-home h1')).getText()).toMatch('App works !');
-  });
-});
diff --git a/e2e/app.po.ts b/e2e/app.po.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 2dedeae92..000000000
--- a/e2e/app.po.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-import { browser, element, by } from 'protractor';
-
-/* tslint:disable */
-export class AngularElectronPage {
-  navigateTo(route: string) {
-    return browser.get(route);
-  }
-}
diff --git a/e2e/common-setup.ts b/e2e/common-setup.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7f6ebfd11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/common-setup.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+const Application = require('spectron').Application;
+const electronPath = require('electron'); // Require Electron from the binaries included in node_modules.
+const path = require('path');
+
+export default function setup() {
+  beforeEach(async function () {
+    this.app = new Application({
+      // Your electron path can be any binary
+      // i.e for OSX an example path could be '/Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp'
+      // But for the sake of the example we fetch it from our node_modules.
+      path: electronPath,
+
+      // Assuming you have the following directory structure
+
+      //  |__ my project
+      //     |__ ...
+      //     |__ main.js
+      //     |__ package.json
+      //     |__ index.html
+      //     |__ ...
+      //     |__ test
+      //        |__ spec.js  <- You are here! ~ Well you should be.
+
+      // The following line tells spectron to look and use the main.js file
+      // and the package.json located 1 level above.
+      args: [path.join(__dirname, '..')],
+      webdriverOptions: {}
+    });
+    await this.app.start();
+    const browser = this.app.client;
+    await browser.waitUntilWindowLoaded();
+
+    browser.timeouts('script', 15000);
+  });
+
+  afterEach(function () {
+    if (this.app && this.app.isRunning()) {
+      return this.app.stop();
+    }
+  });
+}
diff --git a/e2e/main.spec.ts b/e2e/main.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b3c356d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/main.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import {expect, assert} from 'chai';
+import {SpectronClient} from 'spectron';
+
+import commonSetup from './common-setup';
+
+describe('angular-electron App', function () {
+  commonSetup.apply(this);
+
+  let browser: any;
+  let client: SpectronClient;
+
+  beforeEach(function () {
+    client = this.app.client;
+    browser = client as any;
+  });
+
+  it('should display message saying App works !', async function () {
+    const text = await browser.getText('app-home h1');
+    expect(text).to.equal('App works !');
+  });
+
+
+  it('creates initial windows', async function () {
+    const count = await client.getWindowCount();
+    expect(count).to.equal(2);
+  });
+
+});
diff --git a/e2e/protractor.conf.js b/e2e/protractor.conf.js
deleted file mode 100644
index e46f106b8..000000000
--- a/e2e/protractor.conf.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-// Protractor configuration file, see link for more information
-// https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/lib/config.ts
-
-const { SpecReporter } = require('jasmine-spec-reporter');
-
-exports.config = {
-  allScriptsTimeout: 25000,
-  delayBrowserTimeInSeconds: 0,
-  specs: [
-    './**/*.e2e-spec.ts'
-  ],
-  capabilities: {
-    'browserName': 'chrome',
-    chromeOptions: {
-      args: ["--no-sandbox",  "--headless", "--disable-gpu"]
-    }
-  },
-  chromeOnly: true,
-  directConnect: true,
-  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:4200/',
-  framework: 'jasmine2',
-  jasmineNodeOpts: {
-    showColors: true,
-    defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000,
-    print: function () { },
-    realtimeFailure: true
-  },
-  useAllAngular2AppRoots: true,
-  beforeLaunch: function () {
-    require('ts-node').register({
-      project: 'e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json'
-    });
-  },
-  onPrepare() {
-    jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new SpecReporter({ spec: { displayStacktrace: true } }));
-  }
-};
diff --git a/e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json b/e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json
index ac7a37325..acf240be4 100644
--- a/e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json
+++ b/e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
   "extends": "../tsconfig.json",
   "compilerOptions": {
     "outDir": "../out-tsc/e2e",
-    "module": "commonjs",
-    "target": "es5",
-    "types":[
-      "jasmine",
-      "node"
-    ]
-  }
+    "module": "es2015",
+    "types":[]
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "**/*.ts"
+  ]
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 21869a212..3b831157f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -34,10 +34,9 @@
     "electron:windows": "npm run build:prod && electron-builder build --windows",
     "electron:mac": "npm run build:prod && electron-builder build --mac",
     "test": "npm run postinstall:web && ng test",
-    "e2e": "npm run postinstall:web && ng e2e",
+    "e2e": "npm run build:prod && mocha --timeout 300000 --require ts-node/register e2e/**/*.spec.ts",
     "version": "conventional-changelog -i CHANGELOG.md -s -r 0 && git add CHANGELOG.md"
   },
-  "dependencies": {},
   "devDependencies": {
     "@angular-devkit/build-angular": "0.12.1",
     "@angular/cli": "7.2.1",
@@ -56,6 +55,7 @@
     "@types/jasmine": "2.8.7",
     "@types/jasminewd2": "2.0.3",
     "@types/node": "8.9.4",
+    "chai": "^4.2.0",
     "codelyzer": "4.5.0",
     "conventional-changelog-cli": "2.0.11",
     "core-js": "2.6.1",
@@ -69,9 +69,10 @@
     "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "2.0.4",
     "karma-jasmine": "2.0.1",
     "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "1.4.0",
+    "mocha": "^6.0.2",
     "npm-run-all": "4.1.5",
-    "protractor": "5.4.1",
     "rxjs": "6.3.3",
+    "spectron": "^5.0.0",
     "ts-node": "7.0.1",
     "tslint": "5.11.0",
     "typescript": "3.2.2",