cypress-plugin-playwright

Warning ⚠️: This repo is mainly used for POC. It lacks so many utilities. Do not attempt to use it directly as it is. It is possible that I may come back to this and redo this the right way, but I highly doubt it.

This Cypress plugin allows you to run playwright code within the cypress runner using the same chromium-family instance started by cypress. It is inspired by https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/17056 to work around some cypress limitations and awkward ideologies

This plugin does not assume your cypress and/or playwright versions. Install them separately

If you are using cypress<10.0.0, you will have to reverse migrate the code below, see https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/migration-guide#Migrating-to-Cypress-version-10-0

Install

npm i cypress-plugin-playwright

// cypress.config.js


import {defineConfig} from 'cypress';
import playwrightPlugin from "cypress-plugin-playwright/playwrightPlugin.js";

export default defineConfig({
    // ...
    e2e: {
        setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
            // ...
            playwrightPlugin(on, config);
            // ...
        },
        // ...
    },
    // ...
});

Test Example

Below demonstrated a mixed it block with cypress and playwright. If you are using this plugin seriously, you probably want to add a wrapper to the cy.task() to simplify the syntax

// test.cy.js

describe('Run Playwright code with Cypress', () => {
    it('passes', () => {
        cy.visit('https://example.cypress.io');

        async function playwrightCodeBlock(frame) {
            const locator = frame.locator('a:has-text("screenshot")');
            await locator.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
            await locator.click();
        }

        // Unfortunately the `toString()` is needed
        cy.task('runPlaywright', playwrightCodeBlock.toString());

        cy.url().should('contain', 'misc');
        cy.get('body').should('contain', 'cypress/screenshots/my-image.png');
        cy.get('body').contains('cy.focused()').click();
        cy.get('body').contains('Get the DOM element that is currently focused.').should('exist');
    });
});