Playwright

Reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps

Growing steadily, 4.5× faster than Testing this week

7d +0.50% +488 stars in 7d

30d +1.7% +1,629 stars in 30d

90d Not tracked yet — first tracked 2026-08-08

94,191 → 97,840 stars since Aug 8

95,155 Stars 6,629 Forks 192 Open issues

Growing steadily this week. Coverage includes a Hacker News discussion (383 points) on Jan 26 and a Hacker News discussion (181 points) on Mar 26.

Generated Oct 16, 2026

Timeline

💬 5 Hacker News discussions

HN Playwright Tools for MCP Mar 26, 2025 181 pts
HN Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox Jan 26, 2022 383 pts
HN Playwright for .NET is now stable Jun 10, 2021 155 pts
HN Playwright-test – cross-browser end-to-end test suite with Playwright Apr 5, 2021 101 pts
HN Playwright CLI – Open/inspect/emulate pages, generate screenshots, record users Sep 18, 2020 134 pts

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