The water-capture journey clicked the dashboard quick-add trigger after
`waitForLoadState("networkidle")` and then waited thirty seconds for a menu
item that never arrived. The failure snapshot shows the page rendered, the
trigger present, and no menu anywhere: the click landed on server HTML that
React had not attached a handler to yet, and the one click the test had was
spent before hydration.
`networkidle` cannot close that window, because the trigger is in the first
HTML and exists long before the client bundle finishes. The gate has to be the
element's own state. `openMenu` clicks and confirms the trigger reports itself
open — Radix stamps `data-state`, the hand-rolled mobile capture button carries
`aria-expanded` off React state — and spends another click if it does not,
because the problem is a lost event and waiting longer for a swallowed click
achieves nothing. Out of attempts it fails naming the state the trigger was
actually in, rather than letting the caller time out on a menu item that was
never going to appear.
This is a race the spec always had; it surfaces when the machine is loaded
enough to push hydration past the click, which is why it reads as a
branch-specific regression when it is not one. The tour passthrough spec keeps
its single un-retried click on the same trigger: proving that exactly one click
reaches the button through the overlay is that test's entire point.
e2e/
End-to-end browser tests. Playwright 1.60 drives a production build of the app against a real PostgreSQL, with @axe-core/playwright for accessibility assertions. This is the heaviest test tier; CI runs it on every PR, and locally it is worth running when a change touches a UI flow.
Running
pnpm e2e
The Playwright config (../playwright.config.ts) builds the app (next build) and brings up Postgres before the specs run; setup/global-setup.ts seeds the auth + fixture state. The suite is not part of the fast local gate (typecheck / lint / test) — it surfaces at PR CI, so expect responsive/wizard/nav reworks to flag here first.
Layout
setup/—test.ts(the suite'stest+expectentry point),global-setup.ts(auth + DB seeding),test-helpers.ts(shared login + navigation helpers).utils/— fixtures such asmock-dashboard-snapshot.ts.*.spec.ts— one spec per flow: auth/login/redirect, dashboard, charts, the medication-wizard cadences (medications-wizard-*), insights generation + scroll restoration, doctor report, settings, mobile-viewport consistency, locale switch, accessibility (a11y.spec.ts), and thev1427-*regression set.
Conventions
Import test and expect from ./setup/test, never from @playwright/test — types (Page, Route, …) still come from the package. The entry point extends Playwright's test with an automatic fixture that drops route handlers and page listeners after every test, so a handler left in flight cannot fail the test it belonged to once the context closes. src/__tests__/e2e-route-cleanup-guard.test.ts enforces the import boundary.
Assert against stable data-* attributes (data-slot, data-display-step, root display attrs), not viewport-dependent visible text. Responsive sm:hidden UI changes break getByText on desktop while the underlying element is still present — anchoring on data attributes keeps the specs stable across breakpoints. See ../CLAUDE.md.