Playwright: Migration script from puppeteer
Nice library you all have here, it's unfortunate that this is not a new major version of puppeteer though. I think you all would gain a lot more adoption if you had a script to convert puppeteer tests to playwright tests. There should be a way of automatically doing this with a codemod.
KevinGrandon
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The apis are very similar. It should mostly be replacing require(“puppeteer”) with playwright. Is something particularly painful to transition?
JoelEinbinder
on 22 Jan 2020
Would you have time to make a codemod?
giuseppeg
on 23 Jan 2020
Out of interest, any reason why the new features couldn't have been added to Puppeteer with a feature flag? Is there a more fundamental re-architecture in PlayWright?
joewood
on 24 Jan 2020
Playwright is cross-browser and Puppeteer was only done for Chrome. Not all the Puppeteer APIs and abstractions made sense for cross-browser story. Playwright aims at testing: we wait for elements to be interactable when we click, etc. That's a significant change in philosophy, so maintaining the API would be misleading.
I don't think we will be providing a conversion utility, but there already are migration guides available in the wild: https://medium.com/@davert/puppeteer-to-playwright-migration-guide-6c86ea66e85e
pavelfeldman
on 19 Feb 2020
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The apis are very similar. It should mostly be replacing require(“puppeteer”) with playwright. Is something particularly painful to transition?