How VS Code Test Web is used
VS Code Test Web joined the catalog on its public numbers (54,591 downloads a week on npm and 88 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 10 public GitHub projects of our scan, 1 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Playwright (JavaScript) (1,061 projects). Projects that use it most often also use @parcel/watcher (100.0%), Playwright (JavaScript) (100.0%), VS Code Test CLI (100.0%).
Often used with VS Code Test Web
| @parcel/watcher | 100.0% of VS Code Test Web projects · 886.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 100.0% of VS Code Test Web projects · 5.9× more than average |
| VS Code Test CLI | 100.0% of VS Code Test Web projects · 620.8× more than average |
| xterm.js Headless | 100.0% of VS Code Test Web projects · 1552.0× more than average |
| glob | 100.0% of VS Code Test Web projects · 51.3× more than average |
| Husky | 100.0% of VS Code Test Web projects · 9.8× more than average |
| minimatch | 100.0% of VS Code Test Web projects · 214.1× more than average |
| minimist | 100.0% of VS Code Test Web projects · 477.5× more than average |
Install
| Package | npm install @vscode/test-web |
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| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (10) |
| Example projects | microsoft/vscode, haystackeditor/haystack-editor, jcommaret/kodia, ysjemmm/Axon-IDE |
Alternatives to VS Code Test Web
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside VS Code Test Web are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwright (JavaScript) npm Cross-browser automation library for end-to-end testing. |
90 | 1,061 (22.0%) | 46.6M | 98.1K | Apache-2.0 |
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