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playwright-start

Start a long-running Playwright browser server via CLI.

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🙋‍♂️ Why?

When developing browser automation scripts, there's a lot of overhead in browser start up every time you test a change.

Start a long-running browser server in a separate window and connect to it from your script to iterate faster! The CLI also comes with a REPL to help you quickly test code.

🚀 Install

npm i -D playwright-start

🚦 Quick Setup

Start a browser server from a separate terminal session:
```
npx playwright-start
```

Connect from your code:

import {
    ChromiumBrowser,
    devices,
} from 'playwright'
import connect from 'playwright-start'

(async () => {
    const browser = await connect<ChromiumBrowser>()

    const context = await browser.newContext({
        // Emulate Pixel 2 XL
        ...devices['Pixel 2 XL']
    })

    const page = await context.newPage()

    // ...
})()

👨‍🏫 Examples

Starting a non-headless Chromium server

npx playwright-start --headless=false

Starting a Firefox or Webkit server

Firefox:

npx playwright-start firefox

Webkit:

npx playwright-start webkit

Usage no npm install needed!