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jsdom vs Playwright: What are the differences?
What is jsdom? A JavaScript implementation of the WHATWG DOM and HTML standards, for use with node.js. It is a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, notably the WHATWG DOM and HTML Standards, for use with Node.js. In general, the goal of the project is to emulate enough of a subset of a web browser to be useful for testing and scraping real-world web applications.
What is Playwright? Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API (By Microsoft). It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.
jsdom belongs to "Headless Browsers" category of the tech stack, while Playwright can be primarily classified under "Browser Testing".
Some of the features offered by jsdom are:
- Canvas support
- Encoding sniffing
- Closing down a jsdom
On the other hand, Playwright provides the following key features:
- Node library
- Headless supported
- Enables cross-browser web automation
jsdom and Playwright are both open source tools. jsdom with 13.9K GitHub stars and 1.24K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Playwright with 10.9K GitHub stars and 282 GitHub forks.
Pros of jsdom
- Lightweight1
Pros of Playwright
- Cross browser13
- Open source10
- Test Runner with Playwright/test9
- Well documented7
- Promise based7
- Execute tests in parallel5
- API Testing5
- Integrate your POMs as extensible fixtures5
- Python Support4
- Capture videos, screenshots and other artifacts on fail4
- Context isolation3
- Inbuild reporters html,line,dot,json3
- Fastest1
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Cons of jsdom
Cons of Playwright
- Less help12
- Node based3
- Does not execute outside of browser2