Open Interactive Playwright in Node session (run code in real time in browser)

interactive-playwright.js

/**
 * Run the following in your terminal:
 
 * npm i playwright-firefox
 * npx playwright install --with-deps
 * node --experimental-repl-await
 */
 
// Modify/paste the following in the interactive console:

const { firefox } = require('playwright-firefox');

const BROWSER_DIR = '/full/path/to/dir'; # eg /Users/myuser/Documents/playwright-testing/ 
const URL = 'https://playwright.dev/';

const context = await firefox.launchPersistentContext(BROWSER_DIR, {
    headless: false,
    viewport: { width: 1280, height: 1280 },
});

const page = context.pages().length ? context.pages()[0] : await context.newPage();

await page.goto(URL);

// ... perform interactive testing here ...

await browser.close();