Playwright E2E Automation With TypeScript, MCP & AI Agents

Install node.js on Windows by downloading from the official site and running the installer. Verify with node -v and npm -v, and use npm to install packages and run scripts.

Install and verify Visual Studio Code on Windows, upgrade to the latest version, and enable Copilot and MCP server for future Playwright TypeScript workflows.

Learn to set up a Node.js project from scratch by creating a workspace, initializing with npm init, configuring package.json, and running a simple hello world with node.

Install Node.js from nodejs.org using the macOS installer to run JavaScript and TypeScript, then verify with node -v and npm -v, and explore npm help.

Install Visual Studio Code, verify the installation by running code -v in the terminal, download from the official page, and ensure the latest version for Copilot.

Initialize a simple node.js project with npm init to create package.json, then add hello.js with console.log('hello world'). Verify by running node hello.js in the terminal.

Explore variable scoping in Playwright e2e automation with TypeScript by comparing let, const, and var, illustrating block scope and why var should be avoided.

Discover data type conversion in JavaScript using built-in functions such as parseInt, parseFloat, unary plus, and toString to convert strings and numbers for API responses.

Explore the eight data types: seven primitives and one object, how typeof returns lowercase names, why primitives are immutable and objects mutable, and falsy values with parseInt, parseFloat, toString.

Explore operators in programming: understand notation, operands, and return types, and distinguish unary, binary, and ternary operators used for assignment, changing values, producing new values, and comparisons.

Explore the 10 JavaScript operators—from assignment and arithmetic to comparison, logical, string concatenation, ternary, unary, relational, comma and bitwise—and learn their basic syntax and real-world uses.

Explore arithmetic operators, including modulus, increment/decrement, and unary plus, through for loops and scenarios like checking odd or even numbers and converting strings to numbers with parse int/float.

Demonstrates how comparison operators in JavaScript work, including double equals, triple equals, not equals, and the assignment operator, emphasizing value and type checks for boolean results in test automation.

Explore the ternary operator and its three-operand syntax using a question mark and colon. Use it to set log levels for local, remote, and cloud with info, error, or silent.

Explore switch case syntax, including break and default, and compare it with if-else to handle predefined values or inputs like browser drivers or weekdays.

Iterate a mixed array with a standard for loop to sum numbers, using type checks and array length. Demonstrate continue and break as control flow for non-number elements.

Learn how the while loop repeats actions until a condition is true, using an initial value, condition, and increment, with API retry scenarios and maximum retries.

Learn how to extract substrings from a string using the slice method in JavaScript, including start and end indices, optional parameters, and negative indexing to obtain year, month, and date.

Learn how backslashes act as escape characters in string literals, and how the interpreter processes the next character to produce quotes, backslashes, or special sequences such as tab and newline.

Explore how functions drive tasks and calculations in JavaScript, including definitions, calls, named versus anonymous forms, and parameters versus arguments. Learn how TypeScript adds type declarations and checks.

Learn rest parameters and the arguments object to sum any number of inputs in a function using three dots, length, and index access.

Master self-invoking function syntax by wrapping the function in parentheses, then supplying arguments to execute it immediately for quick unit testing.

Explore arrow functions, a shorter form of function expressions used mainly in callbacks, with syntax showing left side, arrow, and right side, plus rules about this and parameters.

Install the core Playwright component, initialize a TypeScript project, review the root readme.md, folder structure, and config for Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit.

Create a target folder structure for the mcp server and playwright setup, including config, data and constants, logs, resources, and test folders (api, devices, end-to-end, functional) following the naming convention.

Install Git on a Windows machine using the standalone installer with the default option, then verify installation by running Git --version in the command prompt to confirm the latest version.

Initialize a local git repository, create master branch, check changes with git status, then git add . and git commit, using .gitignore to exclude dot env before pushing to remote.

Create your first playwright spec file (my test.spec.ts) using test and expect, launch the target URL, and assert the page title and header text with a locator.

Add a script to the package.json scripts object and run npm run demo to execute the npx playwright test quickly. Leverage CI CD mode by running commands with npm run.

Explain page fixtures in Playwright, apply the dry principle to avoid repetition, and use the page fixture with locators and get by role, text, or label to navigate and interact.

Turn auto generated content into a real Playwright TypeScript login spec by creating login.spec.ts, launching the URL, asserting the title and header, and adding a negative login test via codegen.