In our post about extensive-react-boilerplate updates, we mentioned that we migrated e2e-testing from Cypress to Playwright. Now, let’s delve a little deeper into this change.

At the time of writing the automated tests, we had a small amount of functionality to cover and didn’t face significant limitations when using Cypress. Yet, we decided to turn our attention to Playwright for several reasons. We wanted to explore the framework created by Microsoft and understand why it is gaining popularity. Additionally, similar to the case when we added MongoDB support, we received requests from the community and colleagues who wanted to start a project based on boilerplate with Playwright tests.