[Question] playwright-electron types might be missing from the release or is there any guide on how to get it to work?

[kevinlinv]

Background

Hi, I am playing around with playwright at the moment. First impressions is great, I am able to install and run the minimal test on my existing project. I followed the guide in the short readme available here 👉 https://www.npmjs.com/package/playwright-electron

Problem

I am struggling with the typing though, can't seem to get it to work. electron related typing is not available.
It is kinda a deal breaker on my project without the typing so I am really keen to get this to work 😭

Some troubleshooting I did

I was looking at node_modules/playwright-electron/index.d.ts, it looks like it imports the type from playwright-core, however, playwright-core is not in the package.json of playwright-electron

import { ElectronLauncher } from 'playwright-core/electron-types';
export * from 'playwright-core/types/types';
export * from 'playwright-core/electron-types';
export const electron: ElectronLauncher;

I tried to install playwright-core to get around that, however, I noticed that there is no playwright-core/electron-types available in node_modules/playwright-core/electron-types to be imported from.

Question

• Is my above observation correct? in that the typing for electron is indeed missing from the release of playwright-core and therefore can't be found?
• Would I be able to get some advice on how to get it to work?

Thanks in advance 🙌

[arjunattam]

Thanks for the report, @kevinlinv! I can repro this issue with the latest from npm. Running node packages/build_package.js playwright-electron on tip-of-tree is working correctly, and my guess is that the npm version is slightly outdated. Tagging @pavelfeldman.

As you can probably tell, Playwright support for Electron is new, and we would love to learn more about how it's working for you. Feel free to ping me on Slack/email.

[kevinlinv]

O, good to know it wasn't something I did wrong. Thanks for the help.

As you can probably tell, Playwright support for Electron is new, and we would love to learn more about how it's working for you. Feel free to ping me on Slack/email.

Yep, sounds good, will get in touch with any feedback in the future once I have played with it a little bit more.

[pavelfeldman]

I just published playwright-electron@0.5.0, it should make things work for you, please let us know if it does or it does not.

[kevinlinv]

It works as expected with playwright-electron@0.5.0! Thanks!
Shall close this issue!