[andrewmcwatters]

It seems to me like Selenium would have been a more appropriate API to extend from, then. Playwright, despite whatever people want it to be otherwise, is explicitly positioned for testing, first.

People in the browser automation space consistently ignore this, for whatever reason. Though, it's right on their site in black and white.

[hackgician]

Appreciate the feedback. Our take is that Playwright is an open-sourced library with a lot of built-in features that make building with it a lot easier, so it's definitely an easier starting point for us

[andrewmcwatters]

That's the same reason everyone else ignores the fact that it's a testing library. Except now you're forcing users to write kludges that wrap around the testing interface.

[mrbluecoat]

Working with Selenium has always been painful for me so I for one thank you for providing an alternate solution.