Laravel Playwright

Backend utilities for Playwright e2e tests. Provides HTTP endpoints and commands to control your Laravel application during testing - manage databases, factories, authentication, migrations, and environment configuration from your Playwright tests.

Requirements

• PHP 8.3+
• Laravel 11+

Installation

composer require leeovery/laravel-playwright --dev

Publish config and register service provider:

php artisan playwright:install

Configuration

The package config (config/playwright.php) includes:

• Environments: Control which environments expose the endpoints (default: local,testing,playwright)
• Route prefix: Customize the endpoint URL prefix (default: __playwright__)
• Middleware: Set middleware for routes (default: web)
• Environment files: Configure .playwright.env file handling
• Factory settings: Map model aliases and configure factory behaviors

Create a .playwright.env file for test-specific environment variables.

Features

HTTP Endpoints

All endpoints are prefixed with __playwright__ (configurable) and protected by environment checks:

Database Management

• POST /create-database - Create test database
• POST /drop-database - Drop test database
• POST /migrate - Run migrations (supports ?fresh=1&seed=1)
• POST /truncate - Truncate specific tables

Factory & Authentication

• POST /factory - Create model instances via factories
• POST /login - Authenticate user (create or find existing)
• POST /logout - End session
• POST /user - Get current authenticated user

Utilities

• POST /artisan - Execute artisan commands
• POST /routes - Get application route list
• GET /csrf - Get CSRF token
• POST /env-setup - Swap to .playwright.env
• POST /env-teardown - Restore original .env

Artisan Commands

# Setup/teardown test environment
php artisan playwright:env-setup
php artisan playwright:env-teardown

# Database operations
php artisan db:create --database=playwright_test
php artisan db:drop --database=playwright_test

Usage Example

From Playwright tests, interact with Laravel via HTTP:

// Setup environment
await request.post("http://localhost/__playwright__/env-setup");

// Run migrations
await request.post("http://localhost/__playwright__/migrate", {
  data: { fresh: true, seed: true },
});

// Create and login user
const user = await request.post("http://localhost/__playwright__/factory", {
  data: {
    model: "User",
    state: ["verified"],
    attributes: { email: "test@example.com" },
  },
});

await request.post("http://localhost/__playwright__/login", {
  data: { attributes: { email: "test@example.com" } },
});

// Teardown
await request.post("http://localhost/__playwright__/env-teardown");

Factory State Parameters

Pass complex state parameters to factories:

// Fetch model and pass to state method
data: {
  state: [
    { createdBy: ["model.User:100"] }, // Fetch User with id=100
  ];
}

// Use param aliases (configure in config/playwright.php)
data: {
  state: [{ endsAt: ["Carbon(2023-12-25 23:59:59)"] }];
}

Register param aliases in your service provider:

use Leeovery\LaravelPlaywright\Playwright;

Playwright::paramAlias('Carbon', fn($date) => new Carbon($date));

Security

Important: This package exposes powerful endpoints that can manipulate your application. Only enable in non-production environments. The package includes middleware that blocks requests outside configured environments.

If you discover security issues, email me@leeovery.com.

Testing

composer test
composer test-coverage

Development

# Format code with Pint
composer pint

# Refactor code with Rector
composer rector

Credits

• Lee Overy
• All Contributors

License

MIT License. See License File for details.