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@appium/base-driver
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@appium/base-driver
Base class for creating other Appium drivers
This is the parent class that all Appium drivers inherit from. This driver should not be installed directly as it does nothing on its own. Instead, you should extend this driver when creating your own Appium drivers. Check out the Building Drivers documentation for more details.
License
Apache-2.0
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webdriverio
WebdriverIO is a popular automation framework that provides a high-level API for interacting with WebDriver servers. Unlike @appium/base-driver, which is focused on creating custom drivers, WebdriverIO is designed for writing and running tests.
selenium-webdriver
Selenium WebDriver is a widely-used library for browser automation. It provides a set of bindings for various programming languages to interact with WebDriver servers. While @appium/base-driver is focused on creating custom drivers, Selenium WebDriver is aimed at end-users writing automation scripts.
wd
The 'wd' package is a Node.js client for WebDriver/Selenium. It provides a promise-based API for interacting with WebDriver servers. Unlike @appium/base-driver, which is for creating drivers, 'wd' is for writing automation scripts.
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Base driver class for Appium drivers
The npm package @appium/base-driver receives a total of 1,591,315 weekly downloads. As such, @appium/base-driver popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @appium/base-driver demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 18 Jun 2026
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