Selenium and Mocha

Installing Selenium

By default, Node.js scripts load dependent (npm) packages installed locally, i.e., the packages are installed under the directory where the scripts are located.

> cd YOUR_SCRIPT_DIRECTORY
> npm install selenium-webdriver@3.6.0

When it is done, you will see output like below:

+ selenium-webdriver@3.6.0

At the time of writing, the latest release of Selenium WebDriver for JavaScript is 4.0.0-alpha.7, which is a pre-release version (and I found some issues with it). For some unknown reason, npm install selenium-webdriver will install 4.0.0-alpha.7 as a stable version. So that’s why I have used the version specific syntax for installing Selenium.

Successful installation will create the node_modules folder in the current directory, and the packages will be installed into that directory.

If you run into issues on npm package installation, refer to npm docs.