why-did-you-render VS Playwright

Compare why-did-you-render vs Playwright and see what are their differences.

why-did-you-render

why-did-you-render by Welldone Software monkey patches React to notify you about potentially avoidable re-renders. (Works with React Native as well.) (by welldone-software)

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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why-did-you-render Playwright
47 377
10,763 61,381
1.2% 2.8%
7.0 9.9
17 days ago 4 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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why-did-you-render

Posts with mentions or reviews of why-did-you-render. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.

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 why-did-you-render and Playwright you can also consider the following projects:

craco - Create React App Configuration Override, an easy and comprehensible configuration layer for Create React App.

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

use-what-changed - A React hook and an easy to use babel-pugin to debug various React official hooks

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

nextjs-rewrite-test

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

react-render-tracker - React render tracker – a tool to discover performance issues related to unintentional re-renders and unmounts

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

react-devtools - An extension that allows inspection of React component hierarchy in the Chrome and Firefox Developer Tools.

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

razzle - ✨ Create server-rendered universal JavaScript applications with no configuration

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