Playwright Download Count Exceeded Cypress
The trend was clear one year ago; It is time to say “Bye” to Cypress, a flawed E2E test automation framework.
Long-time readers know my consistent view of disliking Cypress for a simple reason: a test automation framework must not have a single severe limitation; sadly, Cypress had a few (another article by others). Frankly, I don’t understand why so many people fell into this Cypress hype. Cypress is OK for demonstration but obviously wrong for real work. Based on my observation (from ~2019), every web test automation attempt using Cypress failed (see success criteria).
Several months ago, a technical blogger disliked my prediction that “Playwright will take over Cypress”. He even listed evidence of the NPM Trends (a site I was unaware of), showing Cypress was ~5 million downloads/week, while Playwright was ~2 million.
However, he forgot what I said was a prediction. Anyway, thanks for his input, the NPM trends proved me correct.
On today’s (2024–04–02) NPM Trend chart, the gap between Cypress and Playwright is reduced to 448932 (compared to 3 million, six months ago).
Some die-hard Cypress fans might still argue, “Zhimin, you claim (as the title) that Playwright download count has taken over…
