Many of us are running a watchdog in the background that
keeps `//lib` folder up-to-date, so there's no need to re-build
Playwright from source on every `npm install` command.
This patch does a crude timestatmp comparison between typescript
files and their javascript counterparts. If some files are missing in
`//lib`, or if some `//src` files are newer than `//lib`, then
it re-builds the Playwright.
This cuts off 10 seconds for me on in case I have a watchdog in the
background.
This patch removes the `PLAYWRIGHT_GLOBAL_INSTALL=1` variable
and instead introduces a new var - `PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH`.
You can specify `PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH` to affect where playwright
installs browsers and where it looks for browsers.
Fixes#1102
You can install playwright with
```
PLAYWRIGHT_GLOBAL_INSTALL=1 npm i playwright
```
to make it use a single shared location for all browser
downloads.
Fixes#1102
This generates typescript definitions based on the api.md, instead of autogenerating them from the typescript source code.
Now types
- only include the public api
- work with older versions of typescript
- include descriptions
- are more consistent
- are more complete
#6
This patch:
- removes `browserType.downloadBrowserIfNeeded()` method. The method
turned out to be ill-behaving and cannot not be used as we'd like to (see #1085)
- adds a `browserType.setExecutablePath` method to set a browser
exectuable.
With this patch, we take the following approach towards managing browser downloads:
- `playwright-core` doesn't download any browsers. In `playwright-core`, `playwright.chromium.executablePath()` returns `null` (same for firefox and webkit).
- clients of `playwright-core` (e.g. `playwright` and others) download browsers one way or another.
They can then configure `playwright` with executable paths and re-export the `playwright` object to their clients.
- `playwright`, `playwright-firefox`, `playwright-chromium` and `playwright-webkit` download
browsers. Once browsers are downloaded, their executable paths are saved to a `.downloaded-browsers.json` file. This file is read in `playwright/index.js` to configure browser executable paths and re-export the API.
- special case is `install-from-github.js` that also cleans up old browsers.
Playwright API is parametrized with a `downloadPath` - a path that
is used to download browsers and to look for downloaded browsers.
This patch starts respecting `downloadPath` as part of
`download-browser.js` utility.
