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Creating an override is basically just providing a placeholder for a value to be injected via React Context. I view this as a form of dependency injection. Contrast this with how this would be done in vanilla Playwright with reading it from a query param or exposing a global to call page.evaluate on which is more along the lines of forcing test code into a component.

Note that if you needed a specific reference in an override there isn't a good way to get that via Playwright, consider this silly example:

    it('can test spies', async () => {
      const spy = browserMock.fn();
      const { page } = await render(
        app =>
          <LogoutButtonAction.Override with={() => spy}>
            {app}
          <LogoutButtonAction.Override>
      );

      await page.getByText('Log out').click();
      expect(await spy).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });