How to install and run Playwright with Javascript
If you use yarn
you can Install Playwright with:
yarn create playwright
It will ask you some questions, I sticked with the defaults:
✔ Where to put your end-to-end tests? · tests
✔ Add a GitHub Actions workflow? (y/N) · false
✔ Install Playwright browsers (can be done manually via 'yarn playwright install')? (Y/n) · true
It will install the required packages, create the config file (playwright.config.js
) and add some example tests.
Running the tests
In playwright you can run the tests in two modes:
- Headless mode: no browser will open up, the results of the tests will show up in the terminal
- UI mode: a browser-like UI will open and you will see a list of all the tests that you can run
The command to run them is:
yarn playwright test [--ui]
Where the --ui
argument is optional to enable UI mode.