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Everyone's migrating to Playwright. But why, actually?

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Everyone's migrating to Playwright. But why, actually?

Lately every other team I talk to is moving off Selenium Java and onto Playwright with JS/TS. Cool....

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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 4003288) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Srinath S Posted on Jun 26 Everyone's migrating to Playwright. But why, actually? #javascript #playwright #selenium #automation Lately every other team I talk to is moving off Selenium Java and onto Playwright with JS/TS. Cool. But when I ask why, half the answers are vague. "It's faster." "Everyone's doing it." Fair, but let's actually dig into it. The "just let AI do it" moment So management calls a meeting. Decision's made — we're switching from Selenium to Playwright.

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