From 99ca1dbc75d8fb8a2d0b6a1ca12c54941f40a524 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Lyding <19598772+clydin@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:14:34 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] test: remove control characters from puppeteer serve output
 in E2E tests

Ensures that ANSI color codes do not interfere with URL matching in
the Puppeteer E2E utility by using 'NO_COLOR' and removing control
characters from the stdout.
---
 tests/e2e/utils/puppeteer.ts | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/e2e/utils/puppeteer.ts b/tests/e2e/utils/puppeteer.ts
index af6b18278c3c..8cab9f2ddef6 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/utils/puppeteer.ts
+++ b/tests/e2e/utils/puppeteer.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { type Page, launch } from 'puppeteer';
 import { execAndWaitForOutputToMatch, killAllProcesses } from './process';
+import { stripVTControlCharacters } from 'node:util';
 
 export interface BrowserTestOptions {
   project?: string;
@@ -25,8 +26,11 @@ export async function executeBrowserTest(options: BrowserTestOptions = {}) {
         serveArgs.push(`--configuration=${options.configuration}`);
       }
 
-      const { stdout } = await execAndWaitForOutputToMatch('ng', serveArgs, match);
-      url = stdout.match(match)?.[1];
+      const { stdout } = await execAndWaitForOutputToMatch('ng', serveArgs, match, {
+        ...process.env,
+        'NO_COLOR': '1',
+      });
+      url = stripVTControlCharacters(stdout).match(match)?.[1];
       if (!url) {
         throw new Error('Could not find serving URL');
       }