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Steve Zhang

  • Director of New Members, Canadian Media Guild
Vancouver
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I Built a VS Code Extension That Turns Playwright Into an Interactive REPL

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By Steve Zhang
| DEV Community
Writing Playwright tests follows the same loop: write code, run it, wait for the browser, see it fail, tweak a locator, run again. Each cycle takes seconds. I wanted something more interactive — type a command, see the result immediately. So I built a VS Code extension that adds an interactive REPL, visual element picker, assertion builder, and recorder on top of Playwright's Test Explorer. Everything shares one persistent browser — no restarts between runs.
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Let AI Control Your Real Browser — Not a Throwaway One

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By Steve Zhang
| DEV Community
Most browser MCP servers launch a separate browser instance. Clean slate, no cookies, no auth. Want to automate something behind a login? Re-authenticate every time. Want to test your actual session state? Too bad. What if the AI could just use the browser you already have open? That's what Dramaturg + @playwright-repl/mcp does. The AI controls your real Chrome tabs — your cookies, your sessions, your localStorage — all intact.
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playwright-repl: Browser Automation From Your Terminal, No Code Required

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By Steve Zhang
| DEV Community
I've been using playwright-cli — Microsoft's command-line tool that gives AI agents browser automation skills via the Playwright MCP daemon. It's brilliant for agents: one command, one process, one result. But for humans, every command spawns a brand-new Node.js process — connect to the daemon, send one message, disconnect, exit. That's 50–100ms overhead per command. I wanted something faster. Something interactive.
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