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playwright

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

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EDITOR'S TAKE

End-to-end browser testing. ~65k stars. Beat Cypress on speed, parallelism, and multi-browser support. Default for E2E testing in 2026.

Use this if

You are writing E2E tests for a web app.

Skip if

You only need unit tests — use Vitest.