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React E2E component testing: Playwright vs. Cypress
Introduction
Below we will compare the pros of each of the automation library for browser testing. Cypress and Playwright are both modern testing frameworks for web applications. Cypress is known for its easy-to-use syntax and integrated test runner, ideal for end-to-end testing. Playwright stands out with its support for multiple programming languages and a comprehensive API, offering broader testing capabilities across different browsers.
Playwright
What is Playwright
Playwright is an open-source automation library for browser testing and web scraping developed by Microsoft and launched on 31 January 2020, which has since become popular among programmers and web developers. Playwright provides the ability to automate browser tasks in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Pros of Playwright
- Playwright allows for handling multiple tabs.
2. Parallelization and sharding of tests is easy (cypress you either pay them for it or you can self host an instance of their test runner dashboard to do it). Parallelization is free (Cypress is paid unless you use a third-party plugin)
