[BUG] Types no longer exported from @playwright/test

[ericmatthys]

System info

• Playwright Version: 1.39.0
• Operating System: All
• Browser: All
• Other info:

Source code

import type { TestInfo } from '@playwright/test';

import type { PlaywrightTestConfig } from '@playwright/test';

Expected

With 1.37.1, these imports are valid.

Actual

TS2614: Module  "@playwright/test"  has no exported member  TestInfo . TS2614: Module  "@playwright/test"  has no exported member  PlaywrightTestConfig .

I didn't see anything in the release notes that indicates that this is an expected breaking change.

[pavelfeldman]

I can't repro this. Please follow the BUG template to provide exact steps I can follow to reproduce this, starting with npm init playwright@latest

[alexkuc]

@ericmatthys Check your local paths. Playwright have internally renamed some packages (#26946) and if you have the same folders/files as Playwright's, TypeScript might erroneously resolve those against your local packages instead of node_module's ones.

Simple way to reproduce the issue:

• navigate to node_modules/@playwright/test/index.d.ts
• control/command click on the namespaces i.e. 'playwright/test':

export * from 'playwright/test';
export { default } from 'playwright/test';

In my case, I actually have a local file playwright/test.ts and when I click on those namespaces, my IDE opens my local file, not Playwright's types

[ericmatthys]

It seems to be an issue with how pnpm is installing dependencies in a monorepo using symlinks, despite TS being configured to preserve sym links. Adding playwright as an explicit dependency as well as @playwright/test fixes the TS errors, despite playwright already being a dependency of @playwright/test. I'll take a closer look at what is happening there.

[ericmatthys]

More context: https://github.com/orgs/pnpm/discussions/5535

Adding public-hoist-pattern[]=playwright to .npmrc is another way of fixing the issue

[alexkuc]

My solution to this is to use paths in tsconfig.json:

"paths": {
    "playwright/test": ["node_modules/playwright/test"]
}

since I am not using pnpm

[garrappachc]

More context: https://github.com/orgs/pnpm/discussions/5535

Adding public-hoist-pattern[]=playwright to .npmrc is another way of fixing the issue

Stumbled upon this issue recently, I'm using pnpm. For me, the fix was to actually put

public-hoist-pattern[]=playwright*

in the .npmrc. The playwright-core package needs to be present as well.