playwright-interactive

To keep a Playwright session persistent across runs, you need a js_repl-enabled environment that maintains shared page, context, and app handles without reinitializing them between iterations. This preserves cross-run state for iterative UI QA workflows.

Yes, you can debug both Electron and web apps in the same persistent Playwright session. It provides shared handles across pages, contexts, and windows, allowing unified functional checks and visual verifications for both application types.

To set up a persistent Playwright session, you need a working js_repl-enabled Codex environment, a Playwright installation in your workspace, and appropriate sandbox settings configured to preserve session state across code changes.

Your Playwright context resets across iterations because standard sessions reinitialize handles each run. Using a persistent Playwright session with js_repl maintains shared page, context, and appWindow handles to prevent state loss during UI regression debugging.

Playwright supports reusing the same browser context after code changes by enabling a persistent session. This approach avoids reinitialization overhead, and you can optionally restart the Electron session specifically when deeper application state changes are needed.

The best way to debug flaky UI behavior without restarting the toolchain is maintaining a persistent Playwright session. It preserves browser and Electron handles across runs, saving time when diagnosing visual regressions or flaky interactions during iterative testing.