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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.

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Pros of jsdom

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Lightweight

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Cross browser
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Open source
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Test Runner with Playwright/test
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Well documented
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Promise based
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Execute tests in parallel
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API Testing
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Integrate your POMs as extensible fixtures
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Python Support
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Capture videos, screenshots and other artifacts on fail
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Context isolation
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Inbuild reporters html,line,dot,json
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Fastest

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Less help
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Node based
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Does not execute outside of browser

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What is jsdom?

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?

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.

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What are some alternatives to jsdom and Playwright?

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

PhantomJS

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow.

Enzyme

Enzyme is a JavaScript Testing utility for React that makes it easier to assert, manipulate, and traverse your React Components' output.

Domino

Use our cloud-hosted infrastructure to securely run your code on powerful hardware with a single command — without any changes to your code. If you have your own infrastructure, our Enterprise offering provides powerful, easy-to-use cluster management functionality behind your firewall.

Puppeteer

Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.

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