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@wdio/types
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Utility package providing type information for a variety of WebdriverIO interfaces
This package contains a bunch of TypeScript types for internal WebdriverIO consumption. Feel free however to use them in your TypeScript project too.
To install this package from NPM run:
npm i @wdio/types
The package exports the following major type bundles: Capabilities, Clients, Options, Services, Frameworks and Reporters. A lot of them are very WebdriverIO specific but you can leverage some, e.g.
import type { Capabilities } from '@wdio/types';
const w3cCaps: Capabilities.W3CCapabilities = {
alwaysMatch: {...},
firstMatch: [],
// fails with "Object literal may only specify known properties, and 'invalid' does not exist in type 'W3CCapabilities'.ts(2322)"
invalid: 42
}
For details please take a look into the individual files.
For more information on WebdriverIO see the homepage.
WebdriverIO is the main package for the WebdriverIO framework, providing the core functionality for browser automation. While @wdio/types focuses on type definitions, webdriverio provides the actual implementation of the automation commands and features.
selenium-webdriver is the official JavaScript implementation of the Selenium WebDriver API. It provides similar browser automation capabilities as WebdriverIO but does not come with built-in TypeScript type definitions, making @wdio/types a better choice for TypeScript users.
Cypress is an end-to-end testing framework that provides a different approach to browser automation compared to WebdriverIO. It comes with built-in TypeScript support, but its API and architecture differ significantly from WebdriverIO.
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Utility package providing type information for a variety of WebdriverIO interfaces
The npm package @wdio/types receives a total of 3,174,070 weekly downloads. As such, @wdio/types popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @wdio/types 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.
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