Beginner’s Guide to Playwright Testing in Next.js

Building modern web applications comes with the responsibility of ensuring they perform correctly across different devices, browsers, and user interactions. If you’re developing with Next.js, a powerful React framework, incorporating automated testing from the start can save you from bugs, regression s, and unexpected failures in production.

This guide introduces Playwright, a modern end-to-end testing framework from Microsoft and demonstrates how to integrate it into a Next.js project. By the end, you’ll have a basic app with route navigation and playwright test that verify pages render and behave correctly.

Why Use Playwright with Next.js

Next.js enables fast, scalable React applications with feature live server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), dynamic routing and API routes.

Playwright helps you simulate real user action like clicking, navigating and filling out form in a browser environment. It’s:

• Fast and reliable
• Headless (run without UI), or headed ...