Visual testing

You started with a one-liner. await page.screenshot() It worked. You got an image. Then the main work started. The trouble with Playwright screenshots is that the first success is misleading. A basic capture is easy. A screenshot pipeline that survives CI, catches actual regressions, produces clean artifacts for debugging, and doesn't fail every time a timestamp changes is not easy. Teams usually discover that the hard way, right after they wire screenshots into test runs and suddenly