Protractor VS Playwright

Compare Protractor vs Playwright and see what are their differences.

Playwright

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. (by microsoft)
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Protractor Playwright
19 371
8,762 60,888
-0.0% 3.9%
0.0 9.9
10 months ago 5 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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Protractor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Protractor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.

Playwright

Posts with mentions or reviews of Playwright. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Protractor and Playwright you can also consider the following projects:

WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js

undetected-chromedriver - Custom Selenium Chromedriver | Zero-Config | Passes ALL bot mitigation systems (like Distil / Imperva/ Datadadome / CloudFlare IUAM)

TestCafe - A Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing.

nightwatch - Integrated end-to-end testing framework written in Node.js and using W3C Webdriver API. Developed at @browserstack

Cypress - Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.

browser-fingerprinting - Analysis of Bot Protection systems with available countermeasures 🚿. How to defeat anti-bot system 👻 and get around browser fingerprinting scripts 🕵️‍♂️ when scraping the web?

Cucumber.js - Cucumber for JavaScript

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome