Setting up Selenium Standalone is relatively straightforward. Here are the general steps:

Pro tip: Add --singleDriverInstall=chrome if you only need Chrome to save bandwidth.

Selenium Standalone is a configuration where the Selenium WebDriver is used directly without the need for a separate Selenium server. This means that the WebDriver is responsible for launching and controlling the browser, as well as handling the test commands. In a standalone setup, the test code, WebDriver, and browser are all running on the same machine.

It spawns a child process running the Java JAR ( selenium-server.jar ). It sets specific command-line arguments (flags) to register the drivers (e.g., -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=path/to/chromedriver ).

(async () => const browser = await remote( capabilities: browserName: 'chrome', 'goog:chromeOptions': args: ['headless', 'no-sandbox'] // Great for CI

# Navigate to the Google homepage driver.get("https://www.google.com")