Customize webServer.command depending on the '--ui' flag
On the playwright.config.ts we can set the webServer.command option like so:
webServer: {
command: `npx ng serve`,
...
}I would like to be able to:
- set the command to
npx ng serve --watch falseif I run the tests withnpx playwright test - set the command to
npx ng serveif I run the tests with UI mode by doingnpx playwright test --ui
Is there any way that I can find out if the playwright.config.ts is being executed in UI mode?
This thread is trying to answer question "Is there a way to customize the `webServer.command` in `playwright.config.ts` based on the presence of the `--ui` flag when running tests?"
I just noticed that if on the playwright.config.ts I do
console.log("process.argv",process.argv);then I get:
process.argv [
'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
'C:\\dev\\repos\\playwright-adventures\\demos\\code-coverage-with-monocart-reporter\\node_modules\\@playwright\\test\\cli.js',
'test',
'--ui'
]And there I can see the --ui option so I could do logic based on this to detect if I'm running in UI mode.
Is there any other way?
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