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Nov 25, 2022 1 hr 2 min

All about Playwright (JS Party #253)

from JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Debbie O'Brien –Senior Program Manager at Microsoft– joins Amal & Nick for a deep-dive on Playwright, an automation library for cross-browser end-to-end testing. Along the way, we learn why Microsoft decided to fork Puppeteer, Playwright's unique value proposition, cool features like auto-waiting & the trace viewer, how it compares to Cypress & a lot more.

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All about Playwright (JS Party #253)

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  1. 0:00 Opener
  2. 0:19 Sponsor: Square
  3. 1:12 It's party time, y'all!
  4. 2:02 Welcome Debbie!
  5. 3:03 Getting to know Debbie
  6. 3:34 Where is Mallorca?
  7. 4:02 Life before Microsoft
  8. 5:18 Playwright is like the Beatles...
  9. 6:09 What is Playright?
  10. 8:35 The origin of the name "Playwright"
  11. 9:43 Why fork Puppeteer?
  12. 11:29 Playwright's value proposition
  13. 14:24 Test isolation is the answer
  14. 16:14 Don't sleep on auto-waiting
  15. 17:24 No Selenium legacy here
  16. 19:21 Sponsor: Sentry
  17. 20:13 More on multi-browser support
  18. 23:57 Please explain this black magic!
  19. 24:54 What about older browsers?
  20. 26:45 Debugging straight from the browser
  21. 28:38 "Nick's Playwright Infomercial"
  22. 31:09 On Playwright's release videos
  23. 34:26 The VS Code extension
  24. 34:54 Talkin' 'bout code generation
  25. 39:07 Nick's beloved TypeScript
  26. 39:56 Sponsor: Ship It!
  27. 41:25 The Trace Viewer
  28. 48:22 Recommended CI practices
  29. 49:43 Playwright vs Cypress
  30. 58:02 How to get involved
  31. 59:32 Debbie's Playwright magic wand
  32. 1:00:24 Wrapping up
  33. 1:00:48 Outro

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