This patch: - drops dependency on playwright-core in all our packages. Instead of the dependency, packages are now built with `//packages/build_package.sh` script. - unifies `browsers.json` - now there's a single `//browsers.json` file that is used to manage browser revisions. This patch temporary switches canary publishing to `--dryn-run` from CI/CD so that we can verify that it does sane things. We'll unify all our package management scripts under `//packages/` in a follow-up. Fixes #2268
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Managing and Publishing Playwright Packages
Overview
- Playwright ships multiple packages to NPM. All packges that are published to NPM are listed as folders under
//packages/
. - Playwright's root package.json is never published to NPM. It is only used for devmode, e.g. when running
npm install
with no arguments or installing from github. - Playwright dependencies for all packages are the same and are managed with the
root package.json
. - Playwright browser versions for all packages are the same and are managed with the
browsers.json
.
Note
As of May 20, 2020, the only exception is the
playwright-electron
package that doesn't follow the pack and is published manually. This is due to it's pre-1.0 status.
Building NPM package
To build a package that will be shipped to NPM, use //packages/build_package.js
script.
The script populates package folder with contents, and then uses npm pack
to archive the folder.
As of May 20, 2020, //packages/build_package.js
does the following:
- copies certain files and folders from
playwright-internal
to the subpackage (e.g.//lib
,//types
,//LICENSE
etc) - generates
package.json
and puts it in the subpackage - generates
browsers.json
and puts it in the subpackage - uses
npm pack
to pack the subpackage folder - removes all the files that were added during the process
To build playwright
package and save result as ./playwright.tgz
file:
$ ./packages/build_package.js playwright ./playwright.tgz
To debug what files are put into the folder, use --no-cleanup
flag and inspect the package folder:
$ ./packages/build_package.js playwright ./playwright.tgz --no-cleanup
$ ls ./packages/playwright # inspect the folder
Testing packages
To test packages, use //tests/installation-tests/installation-tests.sh
.
Publishing packages
All package publishing happens exclusively over CI/CD using the //utils/publish_all_packages.sh
script.