Selenium-grid-manager

A Selenium Grid 4 server and browser drivers manager for your end to end tests. Great tool for launching Selenium Grid with WebDriver support.

Supported Drivers:

• Chromedriver
• Geckodriver (Firefox)
• Edge WebDriver
• Safari

Getting Started

Before starting the installation, you must make sure you have Java and nodeJS installed and configured on your machine.

NB: If you are using windows it is better to use GitBash as a cli terminal.

npm install selenium-grid-manager

Setting

Before starting the selenium server, configure your package.json and download the selenium server jar and driver binaries, it will download the selenium grid server jar, chromedriver, geckodriver and msedgedriver binary.

1- create a configuration file at the root of your project.

NB: the file must be named "selenium-config.js".

module.exports = {
    hubPort: 4444,
    chrome: {
        isActive: true,
        maxSessions: 8,
        version: "100.0.4896.60", // available versions : https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
    },
    firefox: {
        isActive: true,
        maxSessions: 8,
        version: "0.31.0", // available versions : https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
    },
    edge: {
        isActive: true,
        maxSessions: 8,
        version: "100.0.1185.39", // available versions : https://developer.microsoft.com/fr-fr/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/
    },
    safari: {
        isActive: true, // is active only on macos platform
        maxSessions: 8,
        version: "", // safari driver is available on macOS High Sierra and newer
    }
};

Or, get a copy directly with this command :

cp ./node_modules/selenium-grid-manager/selenium-config.js ./selenium-config.js

2- Add this script in your package.json

 "scripts": {
    "selenium:server": "./node_modules/.bin/selenium"
 }

3- Run this command to install drivers

npm run selenium:server install

Starting the Selenium Server

By default, the selenium server will run on http://localhost:4444/ui/index.html.

npm run selenium:server start

Congratulations, selenium server is listening on port 4444, you can set that in your selenium webdriver client.

Other useful commands

npm run selenium:server restart

npm run selenium:server update

npm run selenium:server clean

Available browsers

By default, Google Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge are available when installed on the host system.