@playwright/browser-chromium
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This package automatically installs Chromium browser for Playwright library. If you want to write end-to-end tests, we recommend @playwright/test.
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It is similar to @playwright/browser-chromium in that it allows for browser automation, web scraping, and automated testing. However, Playwright offers more advanced features like multi-browser support and better handling of modern web applications.
Selenium WebDriver is a popular tool for automating web applications for testing purposes. It supports multiple browsers and programming languages. Compared to @playwright/browser-chromium, Selenium is more mature but may lack some of the modern features and ease of use that Playwright offers.
Cypress is a JavaScript end-to-end testing framework that aims to make testing fast, easy, and reliable. It is similar to @playwright/browser-chromium in its focus on end-to-end testing but is more opinionated and integrated, offering a more streamlined experience at the cost of flexibility.
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Playwright package that automatically installs Chromium
The npm package @playwright/browser-chromium receives a total of 252,944 weekly downloads. As such, @playwright/browser-chromium popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @playwright/browser-chromium demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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