Playwright (& Vitest) vs Cypress - The Epic Showdown

Explore testing movie CRUD with events using Playwright, Kafka, and Docker; implement recursion to verify eventual consistency and compare with Cypress in CI workflows.

Learn to test movie CRUD with events using Playwright and Vitest, compare with Cypress, and implement Kafka-based event assertions with recursion to ensure eventual consistency.

Explore setting up playwright in the consumer repo to test the same CRUD app as the provider, compare with Cypress, and leverage source-code tests and macaroon mocks.

Master movie CRUD tests with Playwright in the consumer repo, verifying add, get by id, get by name, update, and delete, plus mock vs real network strategies.

Learn end-to-end testing of movie CRUD events using Playwright with recursion, comparing with Cypress, and illustrate Kafka-backed event publishing and consumer workflows in a provider–consumer setup.

Learn how to set up Playwright and Vitest in the React consumer repo, separating Playwright and Cypress tests for end-to-end and component testing, with caching and config strategies.

Learn end-to-end testing with Playwright for the movies routes, using network interception and routing validation, including query parameters, and compare with Cypress strategies.

Explore ui e2e testing with playwright in a react app, using stubbed network interception for movie add, and compare with cy while building add and edit movie tests.

Explore ui end-to-end testing with a stubbed network and intercepts, comparing Playwright and Vitest against Cypress, using a network helper to mock load, get, post, and update movie data.

Compare Playwright and Cypress for UI end-to-end testing, showing how a network helper simplifies Playwright intercepts for get movies and delete movie, yielding cleaner, faster tests.

Learn end-to-end testing of a movie CRUD UI with Playwright and Vitest, adding and deleting movies via the UI while intercepting and asserting network responses, and comparing with Cypress.

Explore a Playwright e2e workflow for adding and deleting movies using token-based API requests, fixtures, and non-nested calls, with UI edits and network waits, compared to Cypress.

Refine Playwright fixtures by turning intercept network calls into reusable, type-safe fixtures with a generic type extension. Eliminate the page argument to streamline test code and compare favorably with Cypress.

Set up Playwright component testing with Vitest and compare it to Cypress, exploring YAML CI changes, test utilities, and three simple component tests.

Explore end-to-end and component testing with Playwright and Cypress by building a movie list test suite from scratch, including mounting, mocking, and verifying interactions.

Learn to write end-to-end tests with Playwright and Vitest, compare to Cypress, and implement movie form tests with helpers, intercept network, and validate post requests in part 2.

Compare Playwright and Cypress workflows by building a movie form test using RTL concepts and MSW for network interception, validating inputs and POST requests in a Vite project.

Explore Playwright, Vitest, and Cypress in pw + vite tests part 4, demonstrating mounting input components, simulating on-change, and validating calls across frameworks.

Update your tests with a leaner network.ts file and improved pattern matching; pull 48 adds a Playwright clear script and moves toward a reusable NPM package.

Rename the network call result from data to responseJson to clarify JSON handling and reduce data.data confusion, updating references and tests to reflect the new property.

Tune up Playwright scripts by tweaking configs, enabling local and debug modes in VSCode, switching to the list reporter for CI vs local, and aligning readme and scripts across repos.

Tune up playwright artifacts by retaining traces on first failure in CI and local runs, update YAML artifacts across repos, and address flaky tests with actionable debugging.

Improve api request handling in playwright projects by parsing json output or text input when the body is absent, applying the change across provider, consumer, and react consumer repositories.

Improve component tests by adding Playwright and Vitest support alongside Cypress, adjusting MSW setup for headless runs, and enhancing tests with robust selectors and call validations.

Master component testing with loading movies and error scenarios by intercepting and mocking network requests using Playwright, Vitest, and Cypress, and compare MSW setups and UI behavior.

Migrate from v5 to v6 by installing the latest package and React. V6 changes add environment variable handling; fix Playwright config by adding defined property and correcting TS expect error.

Learn to optimize local html reports for Playwright in CI by parallelizing with blob reports, merging traces, and enabling both list and html views in debug for clearer test results.

Explore stabilizing playwright tests by using the ESLint rule no floating promises to enforce awaiting promises, reduce flaky tests, and ensure reliable tests across CI and local runs.

Implement an ESLint rule for react-consumer code in Playwright and Cypress projects; place the rule front and center to boost test reliability and reduce await spam.

Decide to skip a problematic component test in Playwright component testing due to lint conflicts and PV beta limitations, planning a retry after updates.

Explore test burn-in for Playwright and Cypress, using only-changed and repeat-each strategies to run targeted tests in CI and prevent flaky tests from entering main.

Apply eslint no floating promises rules and an await variable to detect and fix incorrect awaits in Playwright and Vitest tests, improving code reliability and settings.