playwright-perl/README.md

playwright-perl

Perl bindings for playwright, the amazing cross browser testing framework from Microsoft

Has this ever happened to you?

You're writing some acceptance test with Selenium::Remote:Driver, but you figure out selenium is a dead protocol? Finally, a solution!

Here's how it works

A little node webserver written in express is spun up which exposes the entire playwright API. We ensure the node deps are installed in a BEGIN block, and then spin up the proxy server. You then use playwright more or less as normal; see the POD in Playwright.pm for more details.

See example.pl for usage examples.

How2develop

Everything should more or less set itself up automatically, or explode and tell you what to do. I assume you know how to get cpanm.

You might want to use distro packages for some of these:

sudo cpanm Dist::Zilla dzil authordeps --missing | sudo cpanm dzil listdeps --missing | sudo cpanm

Actually running stuff:

perl -Ilib example.pl