User feedback

[marvinhagemeister]

Just gave a few colleagues from Preact an introduction into pentf and here is some first feedback (in no particular order):

Critique:

• Confused that there isn't a proper cli binary - Add proper CLI binary #203
  • No need for program description
  • Root dir is always __dirname/process.cwd() in all projects
  • Suggestion to be able to pass glob pattern directly
• Creating tests is very verbose compared to a quick it() call in other frameworks - Suite API #201
  • Lack of suite API, most test cases are only a couple of lines
  • Manually having to pass the type of config
• No native ESM support. The CJS interop in node is okay, but not really nice to use. It doesn't support named exports from commonjs - Add native ES Modules build target #219
• Confused by default viewport of 800x600px
  • Were expecting it to work the other way around: By default it's fluid and if tests need a specific resolution they should set that.
• Submodule imports were perceived as awkward to use with TS/JSDoc

Neutral:

• No watch mode
• Took a bit of time to adjust thinking away from closure sharing that's common in other frameworks

Positive:

• Ability to inspect running chrome instances was liked very much.
• Forwarded console.logs was met with praise
• The keep open + slow mo feature impressed (although it's just puppeteer if we're honest 😉 )
• Result pdf is neat