Playwright tests in TS is much slower than JS

[staramani-ut]

Hi, I would like some feedback and directions.

I used transpiled JS for my Artillery Playwright tests, which worked like a charm. I was excited about the experimental TypeScript support and tried using that. My tests are much slower to the point that I am back to transpiling my code again.

Any suggestions or ideas would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

[hassy]

Very interesting & unexpected! We may need some extra information to try to figure out what's going on. Artillery uses esbuild under the hood to transpile TypeScript. How are you transpiling your TypeScript code? /cc @bernardobridge

[staramani-ut]

Just tsc like "test:perf:survey": "tsc && npm run build:scenarios && npm run test:artillery:survey",

[staramani-ut]

I also wonder if it had to do with my code creating a browser for every vuser. I will try with typescript again to see if that was it.

[staramani-ut]

Yes, this has to do with the code creating browser for each vuser.

[hassy]

😅 okay good to know!