The three main files of a WebdriverIO node project

A lot of files are added while following the WDIO configuration. This is a good time to walk through the project roadmap to get familiar with the features of and relationships between these files, beginning with these three:

• package.json
• yarn.lock
• wdio.config.ts

Let’s look at each one in order of execution.

The package.json file

The first configuration file we will discuss is the package.json file. It helps manage the project’s dependencies and provides a way to run scripts and access other information about the project. This file serves several purposes:

• It can specify scripts that can be run from the command line. For example, a WebdriverIO project might include a wdio script that starts the Webdriver server and a wdio-docker script configured specifically to run on a Docker container instance.
• It specifies the project’s dependencies, which are packages that the project...