[Q] Any plans to move to @playwright/test?

[jeremyzilar]

I noticed that jest-playwright package recommends using @playwright/test over playwright. Any plans to move this this in the future, since it has typescript support out of the box?

• jest-playwright https://github.com/playwright-community/jest-playwright#configuration
• @playwright/test https://playwright.dev/docs/intro#installation

[yannbf]

Hey @jeremyzila, we use jest-playwright as the playwright runner does not support file transformations and we need that in order to turn stories into tests. If they ever support that we could totally support it as a runner too.

I wonder what's your use case, specifically the typescript part. Our runner also has support for typescript!

[horacioh]

what I'm trying to do is to use Vitest instead of Jest to run the test-runner. this will minimize the amount of setup, configs and time to run tests I assume by a substantial amount.

can storybook rely on Vite to transform the stories instead? that would be neat!

[yannbf]

Hey @patak-dev do you think we can already experiment with vite? Will it be able to accept transformations like jest?

[patak-dev]

Yes, from the code you shown me last time, I dont see any blockers

[yannbf]

Alright, I'll do some experimentations with it! Thanks!

[andykenward]

I think we might be able to use @playwright/test as playwright just appears to be a wrapper to playwright-core. Which is used in @playwright/test aswell.

[andykenward]

It looks like jest-playwright is installing playwright-core too https://github.com/playwright-community/jest-playwright/blob/95b83774be71e3859875ccdcc27e0e5aef28c3ff/package.json#L49.

[andykenward]

It looks like jest-playwright is installing playwright-core too https://github.com/playwright-community/jest-playwright/blob/95b83774be71e3859875ccdcc27e0e5aef28c3ff/package.json#L49.

Ah nope. Still need to install playwright to use jest-playwright-preset. Would've thought that playwright would be a peerDependencies for jest-playwright-preset.

[bryanjtc]

Any progress on this? @yannbf Did running with vitest instead of jest worked?

[resource11]

Oooo, I'd love to know this as well, @yannbf. Thanks for all your work on Storybook!

[rc-glean]

+1, @yannbf. Thank you so much for all your work on storybook!

Just to offer another datapoint, here's (IMO) one compelling reason to support @playwright/test. It has access to the experimental ssim-cie94 image comparator (cross-link microsoft/playwright#13873 (comment)).

Context: a common problem is developers might generate screenshots locally on an arm mac, and execute CI tests against x86 linux.

This yields non-determinism. From https://gitnet.fr/deblan/playwright/commit/6d82460a02dec3393490bcab7b619f668f03e6c6

As of Nov 30, 2022, we identified the following sources of
non-determenistic rendering for Chromium:

• Anti-aliasing for certain shapes might be different due to the
  way skia rasterizes certain shapes.
• Color blending might be different on x86 and aarch64
  architectures.

As it stands, non SaaS (chromatic/percy) solutions like Amex's americanexpress/jest-image-snapshot#326 does not have access to this experimental comparator even when setting package.json resolutions