Is there a way to run browserstack setup without the jar download?

[hbrysiewicz]

In my scenario I'm using testem and browserstack-cli within circleci and am actively downloading the linux64 binaries during the dependency phase. The jar download seems unnecessary in many other cases as well, for instance when I'm using this locally with testem and again, using my mac binaries for the browserstacklocal tunnel.

[akhillb]

The new browserstack example in testem uses node-Browserstack-Tunnel. It only downloads the jar or binary only once. Maybe that will help you.