The new Automation Tool comes from M$, wrote the first public version early last year
In comparison with Puppeteer
- API methods are quite similar
- Puppeteer only supports chrome, Playwright supports both webkit and firefox
- Playwright's API is somewhat easier to use (eg: page.click will automatically wait for the element to be available and visible)
- Newer feature of Playwright is to allow simulate multiple devices on 1 browser:
const { chromium, devices } = require("playwright");
(async () => {
const browser = await chromium.launch();
for (const deviceName of ["iPhone 11", "iPad Pro 11"]) {
const context = await browser.newContext({
...devices[deviceName],
});
const page = await context.newPage();
await page.goto("http://github.com");
await page.screenshot({
path: `github-${deviceName.replace(/ /g, "-")}.png`,
});
}
await browser.close();
})();
An interesting point: The top contributor of Puppeteer has now become the top contributor of Playwright /graphs/contributors
