You recommend Cypress as an "obvious" choice, so I am curious whether you evaluated Playwright. If you did, why you find Cypress to be the clearly superior choice? Genuine question.
Thanks for the answer! I'm probably personally leaning towards using Playwright for future projects, reading that. I believe Playwright may be passing Cypress in community size, and simplicity is subjective. They both look quite similar, from this outsider's perspective.
Being someone that has recently evaluated the space and chosen Cypress I am curious why you think the community for Playwright may be passing Cypress? That name didn't even come up in my search while I found tons of blogs, discussions, walkthroughs, and discussion around Cypress. So many in fact I walked even confident I had chosen the 'easiest' tool where I classify easy as how hard it will be to find help when I am unclear on how to move forward.
1. I know GitHub stars aren't everything, but Playwright has 41.9k at the moment, and Cypress has 40.5k.
2. Playwright is backed by Microsoft, and given how happy I've been with how they manage Typescript, that makes it a pretty safe bet to me.
3. Cypress is much older, so I discount a lot of the blog posts in my evaluations. In fact, I count such things against it sometimes, because oftentimes when I'm hunting for a solution to a problem, all I can find are outdated answers. I run into this a lot with AngularJS and Angular.
4. Playwright is included in most of the recent comparison articles I've run across. I don't really keep track of these, but searching again I quickly ran across 2 examples:
