UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY error when running - webdriver-manager start through npm

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This error message...

Error: unable to get local issuer certificate.'UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY'

...implies that npm was unable to initiate protractor properly.

Solution

A quick solution would be to turn strict-ssl to false as follows:

npm config set strict-ssl false

As an alternative you can also configure the npm as follows:

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/