Hey everyone 👋

It's been a few months since we opened the project on Open Collective, and a lot has happened. Here's a full recap of everything that has shipped across the @playwright-labs monorepo.

The project launched with two packages:

Both were focused on reducing the boilerplate needed to wire up common testing tools into Playwright's fixture system.

@playwright-labs/fixture-faker (February 2026)
Faker.js integration as a Playwright fixture. No manual setup, no global imports — just use `faker` directly in your tests.

@playwright-labs/reporter-email (February 2026)
Send Playwright test results to your inbox after every CI run. Plugs into Playwright's reporter API over standard SMTP. Shipped with a base HTML template and Tailwind variant.

@playwright-labs/fixture-env (February 2026)
Type-safe environment variable access in tests. Validates `process.env` keys at fixture setup time so you get a clear error instead of a runtime `undefined`.

@playwright-labs/decorators (February 2026)
TC39 decorator-based test class support. Write Playwright tests as classes with `@beforeEach`, `@afterEach`, `@beforeAll`, `@afterAll` decorators — similar to Jest / JUnit style, but native to Playwright's runner.

@playwright-labs/fixture-abort (February 2026)
`AbortController` and `AbortSignal` support as a fixture. Useful for testing cancellable async operations without setting up the signal manually in each test.

@playwright-labs/fixture-timers (February 2026)
Node.js timer API (`setTimeout`, `setInterval`, `clearTimeout`, `clearInterval`) exposed as a Playwright fixture with automatic cleanup after each test.

@playwright-labs/fixture-testcontainers (March 2026)
The newest addition. Start Docker containers inside your Playwright tests using the Testcontainers API — databases, queues, mock servers — with automatic cleanup when the test finishes. No external docker-compose setup required.

@playwright-labs/playwright-best-practices (ongoing)
A comprehensive best practices guide for Playwright + TypeScript, formatted for AI agents and LLMs. Useful as context for AI-assisted test writing.

The email reporter got a significant upgrade this month. We added 4 new templates built on email-safe shadcn/ui components:

All shadcn components were rewritten from scratch without Radix UI (which requires browser APIs) and with concrete Tailwind colors instead of CSS variables — the two things that normally make shadcn incompatible with email clients.

Each template ships as a separate subpath export and bundle so you only pay for what you import:

import { PlaywrightReportShadcnSelectEmail } from "@playwright-labs/reporter-email/templates/shadcn/base-select";

- 11 packages across the monorepo
- 10+ published npm releases across all packages
- Automated releases via Changesets + GitHub Actions on every merge to `main`
- All packages are ESM + CJS dual-build with full TypeScript declarations

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A few things on the near-term roadmap:

Thanks to everyone who starred the repo, opened issues, or contributed. Every bit of support helps keep the project going.

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