Playwright is a powerful end-to-end testing framework that integrates seamlessly with Next.js to automate browser interactions and verify application behavior across different browsers.

• Supports end-to-end testing across multiple browsers.
• Automates user interactions such as clicks, navigation, and form submissions.
• Tests applications with both server-side and client-side rendering.
• Ensures application reliability by validating complete user workflows.

Steps to Set Up Playwright Testing in Next.js

Follow the steps given below:

Step 1: Create a New Next.js Application

Create a Next.js project using the following commands:

npx create-next-app@latest next-playwright-app
cd next-playwright-app

Step 2: Install Playwright

Install Playwright using the following command:

npm init playwright@latest

You will be prompted with the following questions to choose how you would like to set up Playwright:

✔ Do you want to use TypeScript or JavaScript? · JavaScript 
✔ Where to put your end-to-end tests? · tests/e2e
✔ Add a GitHub Actions workflow? (y/N) · false
✔ Install Playwright browsers (can be done manually via 'npx playwright install')? (Y/n) · true

We can also use the below command for automatic project setup along with playwright

 npx create-next-app@latest --example with-playwright with-playwright-app

Step 3: Configure the Test Script

Add the following script to your package.json file:

"scripts": {
  "test:e2e": "playwright test"
}