Hey, I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out the best way to automate these tricky login flows in our web app tests. It’s got multiple steps, sometimes even hooks into third-party services. Got any smart ideas on how we can make Playwright handle this smoothly, especially when we need it to work both on our local machines and in our CI/CD setups?
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Oh, totally feel your pain there. What I usually do is pretty straightforward: just script Playwright to fill in the login form, hit the submit button, and check if we landed on the dashboard. It’s like simulating what a user would do. Works fine for the simpler stuff, but yeah, can get a bit flaky with more complex setups or when third-party logins are involved.
Thank you, it works.
Ah, for that, I’ve got a trick up my sleeve. Instead of dealing with the UI directly, why not hit the login API directly and grab the auth tokens? Then you can just feed those tokens to Playwright. This way, you’re not at the mercy of the UI, and tests run way faster. Here, let me show you how I do it with a bit of axios magic for the API call and then setting up Playwright with the right cookies or headers.