Testing · Middle · Question 52 of 75

How do you start the app automatically before Playwright tests?

✓Correct answer: Configure webServer in playwright.config with the command and URL to wait for
2Start it manually in another terminal - there's no other way
3Call exec("npm run dev") in each test

Explanation

reuseExistingServer: !process.env.CI uses a running dev server locally and starts a fresh one in CI.

Further reading

Playwright: Web server ↗

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