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Playwright is MIT licensed and as far as I see they won't try to lock anyone into Microsoft offering like Cypress is doing. Playwright is built on top of Chrom
by msoad 3y ago
Playwright is MIT licensed and as far as I see they won't try to lock anyone into Microsoft offering like Cypress is doing.
Playwright is built on top of Chrome Developer Tools Protocol[1] by the ex-Chrome folks and the API is far superior than Cypress. It gives you so much more flexibility and stability compared to Cypress.
I am having a blast switching our e2e test suite from Cypress to Playwright. Things just work and debugging is much more easier.
[1] https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/ https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/
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- jemmyw 3y agoWe switched from cypress to capybara+selenium. I do really like playwright but it looked like more work to fit in with our app. Cypress had some flakiness issues that we just could not get fixed despite putting in considerable effort. Even if we had fixed them, the api wasn't great and I'd have low confidence that all devs would be able to continue writing non flaky tests.