[benoau]

Very cool, I think one of the biggest opportunities Playwright has is making it a more general purpose tool for non-developers, writing the tests and getting them to a state where they reliably pass has always been so much more finicky than it should be.

[baudehlo]

That's the idea, it's very much for non-developers.

[benoau]

I really like this space. I prototyped a concept last year for product/qa teams to write the tests, I was able to run Playwright in a docker container and stream the session to the browser using VNC and web sockets to extract the test recorder and relay commands, allowing the user to run Playwright and record tests without needing anything installed.

It was a lot of fun, but what turned me off it was the likelihood anyone not already using Playwright would have to update their frontend and keep streamlining that before they really got any value out of it.

https://imgur.com/a/4UzOwJ8

[baudehlo]

Yeah my big thing was this needed to be local, because I want to test against localhost, so rather than a web app, a desktop app made sense. I'd like to build in some sort of team features to it, so that you can collaborate with other people.

This was only my second desktop app ever, my first being a DVD burning app for the Mac, so you can guess how long ago that was!