This fixes the compatibility on Vercel with Next.js when it's used in
a serverless function.
Next.js uses https://github.com/vercel/nft to trace down the
dependencies which a serverless function is using which
is currently not capable of detecting the browsers.json in our current
setup. Previously we used require to load the browers.json which was
replaced by readFileSync in #5318. Since then it was broken.
Fixes#5862
This patch adds support for `technology preview` webkit channel, which
we will keep close to the actual Safari Technology Preview releases.
This channel does not install by default. It is supposed to be installed
with the following CLI command:
```sh
$ npx playwright install webkit-technology-preview
```
Once the channel is installed, it can be used the following way:
```js
const browser = await playwright.webkit.launch({
channel: 'technology-preview',
});
```
**NOTE:** if clients attempt using the channel without installing it,
it'll throw an error with a copyable instructions to install via CLI.
References #5884
Browser registry is responsible for 3 things:
1. Remove downloaded browsers if there are no packages that refer to them
2. Install default browsers needed for the current package
3. Install browsers on-demand when used through Playwright CLI
Currently, registry relies on a single "download" field in `browsers.json`
to carry both (1) and (2). However, browsers in (3) are marked as
`download: false` so that they aren't installed automatically in (2), so
auto-remove procedure in (1) removes them on subsequent installation.
One possible approach to fix this would be modifying package's `browsers.json` to
change `download: false` to `true` when browsers are installed with
Playwright CLI. This approach was explored here:
bc04a51800
We decided against this since we have a history of issues related to
package modifications after NPM installation. This breaks all
sorts of yarn/npm caching mechanisms.
Instead, this patch is a two-step refactor:
- remove the "download" field in `browsers.json`. Now, all registries
(including old ones from previously-released versions) will retain any
browsers that are mentioned in the `browsers.json`.
- add a new flag "installByDefault", that is **only used** for default
installation.
With this change, the registry tasks are done like this:
- (1) auto-removal: if browser has a back reference, it is retained,
otherwise it is removed from registry
- (2) default installation: use only `installByDefault` to carry default installations
- (3) CLI installation: simply installs browsers. Since we retain
everythings that's referenced in (1), browsers aren't removed.
Fixes#5902
We get relative registry path when PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH or HOME is relative.
In this case, it would be good to resolve to the same absolute path
during installation and execution, and we can usually do that using INIT_CWD.
