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Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright

by Shantnu Tiwari new.pythonforengineers.com published 2022-10-272 min read

For web automation/testing, Selenium has been the de facto "standard" since forever. It's simple to get started with and supports almost every programming language. My problem with it has been: It's good enough, but nothing more. It doesn't work that well with modern, Javascript framework heavy sites (Angular, React

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