The advanced way to install appium

If you want to modify Appium source code. You must take full control of the installation process. This will allow you to:

1. Modify Appium server source code
2. Understand how Appium works

For Appium to works you need:

1. Nodejs
2. Appium server
3. Mocha & Grunt modules

Install nodejs:

Homebrew is the best way to install node since it doesn't then require sudo privs later on.

brew install node

Install appium server:

1. Option 1 - Github:
   • Clone appium project: git clone https://github.com/appium/appium.git
   • Run ./reset.sh --dev in the new appium directory
   • Run node server.js to launch appium
2. Option 2 - Node Package Module (npm):
   • npm install -g appium
   • This command will download and create appium project folder globally
   • cd /usr/local/bin/
   • ln -s /path/to/appium/app/bin.js appium
   • Run appium to launch appium

Install mocha & grunt modules:

• npm install -g mocha
• npm install -g grunt-cli

Congratulation, you are done! And now you can run appium server by CLI and test your script Here is the simple example for you to play:

mkdir appium-test && cd appium-test
npm install wd
curl -O https://raw.github.com/appium/appium/master/sample-code/examples/node/simplest.js
appium &
node simplest.js