Playwright Framework From Scratch With TypeScript

Overview

Each chapter adds one production capability without hiding the reasoning behind it. CURRENT PLAYWRIGHT ALIGNMENT The setup and framework patterns in this handbook were checked against the official Playwright documentation available in September 2026. Commands intentionally use version- agnostic patterns such as npm init playwright@l

Table of contents

1. How to Use This Guide
2. What you will build
3. Layer Responsibility Typical files
4. Tests Business scenarios and assertions tests/e2e/*.spec.ts
5. Pages Screen-level locators and actions pages/*.page.ts
6. Components Reusable widgets components/*.component.ts
7. Fixtures Dependency injection / setup fixtures/test.fixture.ts
8. API Service clients / setup helpers api/*.client.ts
9. Data Typed test inputs data/*.ts or JSON
10. Utilities Cross-cutting helpers utils/*.ts
11. Config Projects, retries, reporters playwright.config.ts
12. 01 Start clean: installation and prerequisites
13. 02 Design the architecture before writing tests
14. 03 Create a professional project structure
15. 04 Configure TypeScript and package scripts
16. 05 Build playwright.config.ts
17. 06 Write the first maintainable test
18. 07 Page Object Model done correctly
19. 08 Reusable components and locators
20. 09 Custom fixtures and dependency injection

Who this resource is for

• Automation Tester
• SDET