spectron VS Playwright

Compare spectron vs Playwright and see what are their differences.

spectron

DEPRECATED: 🔎 Test Electron apps using ChromeDriver (by electron-userland)

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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spectron Playwright
5 377
1,679 61,381
0.0% 2.8%
0.0 9.9
about 2 months ago 4 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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spectron

Posts with mentions or reviews of spectron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-26.

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 2024-04-18.

What are some alternatives?

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

electron-playwright-example - Example of multi-window Playwright testing with Electron

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)

electron-spectron-example - A example of using Spectron to test an Electron application

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

Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor

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

running-playwright-on-aws-lambda - Running hundreds of Playwright E2E tests in a few seconds with AWS Lambda

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

Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

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