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How to Set Up Playwright Component Testing in a Vite + React Project (and Ditch Jest)

Playwright component testing replaces Jest + jsdom with real Chromium DOM rendering in a Vite + React project, eliminating polyfills and layout lies. This guide walks through the config, provider wrappers, CSS gotchas, and a sharded GitHub Actions setup that runs 500 tests in under 3 minutes.

6 min read Jul 15
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