WORKFLOW AUTOMATION
GitHub Actions: Playwright CI Starter Workflow
Production-shaped GitHub Actions workflow running Playwright suites with dependency caching, sharding, trace-on-retry artifacts and required-check conventions.
- Intended user
- Teams setting up durable Playwright CI on GitHub Actions
- Required tools
- GitHub Actions, Playwright project in repository
- Input requirements
- Standard Playwright config; adjust Node version matrix and shard count.
- Output example
- Green/red checks with uploaded traces, reports and HTML summary on failure.
- Compatibility
- Playwright ≥ current stable, ubuntu-latest runners
- Download format
- YAML (.yml)
Safety notes
Uses least-privilege permissions block; review OIDC/AWS patterns before extending to deployments.