feat: add beta for testing and npm available

[KazuCocoa]

This PR does:

• Make the plugin available via npm install
  • Update https://www.npmjs.com/package/appium-inspector-plugin

Fixed

$ appium plugin install --source=npm [email protected]
✔ Checking if 'appium-inspector-plugin' is compatible
✖ Installing '[email protected]'
Error: ✖ Encountered an error when installing package: Package subpath './package.json' is not defined by "exports" in /Users/kazu/.appium/node_modules/appium-inspector-plugin/package.json

Fixed below as well, but I needed to add dependencies...

[Appium] Could not load plugin 'inspector', so it will not be available. Error in loading the plugin was: Cannot find package 'appium' imported from /Users/kazu/.appium/node_modules/appium-inspector-plugin/index.mjs
[Appium] Error: Cannot find package 'appium' imported from /Users/kazu/.appium/node_modules/appium-inspector-plugin/index.mjs
    at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:854:9)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:927:18)
    at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1169:11)
    at ModuleLoader.defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:540:12)
    at ModuleLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:509:25)
    at ModuleLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:239:38)
    at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:96:40)
    at link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:95:36)
[Appium] Welcome to Appium v2.14.1 (REV bab86d5de571015b63fd8fc30b47bbe072a1290e)
[Appium] Non-default server args:

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I'll do below as another PR to merge this idea first:

• Update README to add npm install method
• Add https://www.npmjs.com/settings/appium/packages to the appium-inspector-plugin package
• Configure GHA to release a new plugin version as part of https://github.com/appium/appium-inspector/blob/main/.github/workflows/package.yml
• Gather plugin related commands as general command such as npm run build will build plugin as well

[KazuCocoa]

@saikrishna321 Could you add https://www.npmjs.com/~kazucocoa to https://www.npmjs.com/package/appium-inspector-plugin project to push appium-inspector-plugin name space? Then, I'll add the package under https://www.npmjs.com/settings/appium/packages

If it would be nice to use a different name space as Appium, I'll rename this appium-inspector-plugin to another one to maintain it as Appium's npm channel. e.g. @appium/inspector-plugin as a 2nd candidate

[saikrishna321]

@KazuCocoa Added you!

[KazuCocoa]

Thank you!

[saikrishna321]

@KazuCocoa Tested latest versions and works fine as plugin

[KazuCocoa]

Only this way fixed:

[Appium] Could not load plugin 'inspector', so it will not be available. Error in loading the plugin was: Cannot find package 'appium' imported from /Users/kazu/.appium/node_modules/appium-inspector-plugin/index.mjs
[Appium] Error: Cannot find package 'appium' imported from /Users/kazu/.appium/node_modules/appium-inspector-plugin/index.mjs
    at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:854:9)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:927:18)
    at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1169:11)
    at ModuleLoader.defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:540:12)
    at ModuleLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:509:25)
    at ModuleLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:239:38)
    at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:96:40)
    at link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:95:36)
[Appium] Welcome to Appium v2.14.1 (REV bab86d5de571015b63fd8fc30b47bbe072a1290e)
[Appium] Non-default server args:

error...

appium plugin install --source=npm [email protected]

is only import {BasePlugin} from 'appium/plugin.js'; and peerDependencies. No "@appium/base-plugin": "^2.3.0" but appium --use-plugins=inspector--allow-cors cased error the above.

Latest appium plugin install --source=npm [email protected] is this current PR's latest.

(I know ideally we'd like to use import {BasePlugin} from 'appium/plugin.js'; only with peerDependencies)

[eglitise]

Can the installation steps in the plugin's readme be updated?
I will update the full documentation in a separate PR.

[saikrishna321]

@eglitise ReadMe is here - https://github.com/appium/appium-inspector/tree/main/plugins

[eglitise]

I'm aware; I was referring to the fact that it currently only lists the local installation steps. Since this PR adds the npm installation approach, it should also be added to the readme (and IMO the local installation steps can be removed, since they are objectively more complex for the end user, and belong in the Inspector documentation's Development docs)

[eglitise]

Installed beta.10 locally - works as expected 👍

[eglitise]

Just noticed in the description that the README update will come in another PR - all good then.

[KazuCocoa]

Yea, initially, I thought I could put all the planned work in the description in one PR but I'd like to get review and merge only this PR since this was needed to fix Error in loading the plugin was: Cannot find package 'appium' imported from /Users/kazu/.appium/node_modules/appium-inspector-plugin/index.mjs error only via npm installation.
I'll do the rest of README work in upcoming another PR with GHA actions setup