microsoftplaywright
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
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playwright (TypeScript) — Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
You are writing E2E tests for a web app.
Testing
End-to-end browser testing. ~65k stars. Beat Cypress on speed, parallelism, and multi-browser support. Default for E2E testing in 2026.
You are writing E2E tests for a web app.
You only need unit tests — use Vitest.
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