demo-playwright

Playing around with Playwright

Usage

Run tests (Chromium, headless mode)

npx playwright test

Run tests in headed mode

HEADLESS=false npx playwright test

Run tests against custom url (there is a default Prod url, but a custom url allows running against dev environments)

BASE_URL=<your url> playwright test

Playwright is cool

• tests retries - not the best pattern, but helpful in some setups
• video recording
• trace report - one of the best things about Playwright, being able to see browser state at any state, network calls, screenshots, local storage, cookies, etc. Just run npx playwright show-trace <trace report path, usually in tests-results folder>
• plenty reports, including custom one, but html report is already quite nice
• parallel tests out of the box
• browser compatibility
• run tests against different viewports (mobile, etc)