Getting started with playwright
Prerequisities
You need the following software to use Playwright
- Node (With Node you can run javascript outside a browser)
Download Node Use the ‘LTS’ / long term supported version. - Code editor (VS code or any other HTML editor/IDE you work with)
Download VScode
Terminology
- A package manager like NPM, PNPM or Yarn is used to install packages. NPM in bundled within Node.
- Terminal to run your scripts. On Windows enter ‘CMD’ or ‘command’ in the searchbar to start the terminal. The terminal can also be activated from within VS Code.
$ mkdir myproject && cd myproject
$ npm install ...