DevTools VS Playwright

Constantly being told to "Reload DevTools" · Issue #145 · MicrosoftEdge/DevTools (github.com)

If you've got specific feedback they have a GitHub repo - https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/DevTools/issues/

I've published an explainer on GitHub that covers possible scenarios and will get more design ideas soon and we have an Issue on GitHub tracking the progress. I would love to hear more what you think would be a better experience than what we have right now.

Hey, Reddit friends! We've had a crazy couple of weeks here on the Edge team, which messed up a couple of releases. We should be back to our regular schedule now. If you missed it, we announced how to use Microsoft Edge Beta on your Steam Deck to use Xbox Cloud Gaming! This was super fun to partner with Xbox on, and if you have a Steam Deck we'd love to know about your experience. We had a few people run into issues with games freezing and needing to clear cache to continue but know that we are working on resolving that. I will update my announcement post with more details once I have those to share. We also launched a GitHub repo for feedback around the F12 DevTools, and posted up details on how the auto alternative text descriptions for images works!

Today we released a new GitHub repository for the Developer Tools in Microsoft Edge where you can file issues about problems, bugs and feattures you would like to see. You can also view the list of existing issues and add your comments.

Playwright, an end-to-end test runner;

We start with a project that was bootstrapped with npx create-next-app. For the E2E test we use Playwright and set it up as described in the testing guide provided by Next.js.

Playwright is a powerful tool developed by Microsoft, it allows developers to write reliable end-to-end tests and perform browser automation tasks with ease. What sets Playwright apart is its ability to work seamlessly across multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit), it provides a consistent and efficient way to interact with web pages, extract data, and automate repetitive tasks. Moreover, it supports various programming languages such as Node.js, Python, Java, and .NET, that’s making it a versatile choice for web scraping projects. Whether you're scraping public data for analysis, building a web crawler, or automating manual workflows, Playwright has you covered.

The consensus I could gather is either use playwright or use a workaround to solve it in the puppeteer layer. The root cause of the bug is a websocket size limitation on the CDP protocol for chromium.

With the advent of tools like Puppeteer and now Playwright, end-to-end testing has become much easier and more reliable. For anyone who's used Selenium in the past, you know what I'm talking about. Puppeteer has opened the way in terms of E2E tooling, but Playwright has taken it to the next level and made it easier to await for certain selectors or conditions to be fulfilled (via locators), thus making tests more reliable and less flaky. Also, it's a game changer that it introduced a test-runner - this made the integration between the headless browser and the actual test code much smoother.

In this tutorial, our main focus will be on Playwright web scraping. So what is Playwright? It’s a handy framework created by Microsoft. It's known for making web interactions more streamlined and works reliably with all the latest browsers like WebKit, Chromium, and Firefox. You can also run tests in headless or headed mode and emulate native mobile environments like Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari.

// playwright.config.ts import { defineConfig } from "@playwright/test"; /** * See https://playwright.dev/docs/test-configuration. */ export default defineConfig({ testDir: "./src/pages", reporter: "list", use: { baseURL: "http://localhost:5432/", }, timeout: process.env.CI ? 10000 : 4000, // ... more options });

Issues with Playwright

Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright

This means you cannot place test files outside of this directory, which was brought up as a question on Github some time ago. Initially, I thought it would be nice to add another folder in the repo called "scripts", but Playwright does not allow multiple testDir values.