How axe-playwright is used
axe-playwright joined the catalog on its public numbers (378,315 downloads a week on npm and 234 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 11 public GitHub projects of our scan, 9 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is axe-core Playwright (103 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Playwright (JavaScript) (90.9%), Vite (63.6%), Lucide React (63.6%).
axe-playwright popularity over time
Gid Score 31: downloads 55, use in agent projects 19, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 48 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with axe-playwright
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 90.9% of axe-playwright projects · 5.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vite | 63.6% of axe-playwright projects · 3.2× more than average |
| Lucide React | 63.6% of axe-playwright projects · 3.2× more than average |
| tsx | 54.5% of axe-playwright projects · 3.6× more than average |
| dotenv | 54.5% of axe-playwright projects · 3.5× more than average |
| Testing Library | 45.5% of axe-playwright projects · 4.5× more than average |
| remark-gfm | 45.5% of axe-playwright projects · 12.4× more than average |
| concurrently | 45.5% of axe-playwright projects · 5.8× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list axe-playwright as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install axe-playwright |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (10), Next.js (1) |
Alternatives to axe-playwright
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside axe-playwright are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| axe-core Playwright npm Accessibility testing integration for Playwright enabling automated WCAG compliance checks. |
56 | 103 (2.1%) | 9.4M | 727 | MPL-2.0 |
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