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Guides, release notes, and engineering deep-dives on test automation — getting started in your language, what shipped and why, and how the core and its plugins are actually built.
Allwright Inspector: find locators by pointing
A new allwright inspector command shows your running app next to its accessibility tree and writes the locator for you in five languages.
Web, mobile, and desktop on one API
allwright v0.1.25 puts web, Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows behind one client shape, one locator model, and the same retrying assertions.
iOS testing, now on Simulators and real iPhones
allwright now drives iOS apps on Simulators and registered iPhones with the same Playwright-style API as web and Android, and no driver to set up.
Iframes are just pages now
allwright v0.1.13 resolves any iframe — nested or cross-origin — to a normal Page with one call, waiting until its document has actually loaded and settled.
Hooks: catching popups, uploads, and downloads without racing your test
allwright v0.1.5–v0.1.7 shipped typed hooks — a register-then-wait lifecycle across all five clients for new tabs, native file pickers, and downloads, so you never race a browser-native event again.
v0.1.0 is here — and it hasn't slowed down since
allwright v0.1.0 shipped September 4th — the first minor version, and a real milestone. Four releases later, at v0.1.4, it's already grown web accessibility snapshots, semantic locators, locator exclusion, and Android accessibility snapshots.
npm init allwright: a test project in one command
allwright now ships its own project initializer. Run npm init allwright@latest and get a working, installed TypeScript or JavaScript test project — config, starter tests, and all — in under a minute.
On the road to allwright v0.1.0
allwright's next release is its first minor version, v0.1.0 — and it's coming soon. Here's the small, tangible set of features that already work today, plus a new Changelog page tracking everything on the way there.
What's cooking: Android testing, Playwright-style
allwright shipped Playwright-style Android testing over adb and never announced it. What works, what's missing, and a step-by-step Vitest example.
Why allwright, when Playwright already exists?
Playwright already solves web automation extremely well. Here's the actual gap allwright is built to close, and why 'Playwright-style' was never the pitch.
Get started with allwright in TypeScript
Go from an empty folder to a passing, real-browser test in about five minutes, using @allwright.dev/vitest — no driver binaries, no manual browser setup.