Playwright vs axios

@rajucheers I m using Axios too . With Axios ans State mechanism my tests so speed and more manageable

I've got a suite of 1400+ api tests using only playwright api methods, have no issues, suite is fast, the built in test runner and reports with trace files make debugging easy. I haven't used axios directly but I'm pretty sure that's whats being used underneath the playwright implementation.

interesting thoughts

@yusufozt. , what is State mechanism?

@rajucheers Saving axios response to state but you can also run states with Playwright api For e.g saving responses to States and calling them in tests

export const ReportsState = { //API createdDashboardId: {} as string, createdDashboardTitle: {} as string, createdWidgetName:{} as string,

//E2E
createdFakeWidgetName: {} as string,
createdFakeDashboardName: {} as string,
updatedFakeWidgetName: {} as string,
fakeQuadrantNumber: {} as any

}

By the way axios interceptors are useful

We use axios within our playwright framework to do our api handling / calls. I've built out two similar services that utilize axios vs playwright api tools and found that axios provides a little more speed and better async handling for some of our specific api endpoints that require multiple steps.

Ok

I used both axios and playwright. One disadvantage that I see with playwrifght. If I use another context to api to add the auth another tracer is added to html reporter.

For easier troubleshooting I'd recommend Playwright's APIRequestContext (request or page.request) since its API requests and responses are included in Playwright's trace files. I don't think that's the case with axios. https://playwright.dev/docs/trace-viewer-intro