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Playwright vs Cypress: GitHub, npm & hiring signals

A live, signal-by-signal comparison of Playwright and Cypress — GitHub stars, npm downloads, and how many of the 27 public signal sources Sigmon can track for each. Numbers below are detected right now.

Playwright

Top-repo stars
npm/wk
61.2M
Trackable sources
11/27
Full Playwright signal breakdown

Cypress

Top-repo stars
npm/wk
7.2M
Trackable sources
11/27
Full Cypress signal breakdown

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