Webdriver: Could not connect to 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

[trymeouteh]

I generated a basic tauri app using npm and plain JS. copied the webdriver code from the webdriver-example repo and modified it to work with npm instead of pnpm. However I cannot get the simple webdriver test to work as when it launches the test and opens the app window, it does not show the app home page and instead it says...

Could not connect to 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

Any help will be most appreciated

Where I got the webdriver testing code from
https://github.com/tauri-apps/webdriver-example/tree/main/v2/webdriver/webdriverio

My code
https://github.com/trymeouteh/tauri-app-webdriver-testing-js-npm