sebastiancarlos

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sebastiancarlos,

And what’s your workflow when working with lots of files in projects with fish?

sebastiancarlos, (edited )

Cool project! I’ll check it out.

Regarding userscripting, from the F.A.Q.:

Why use an external automation tool (Playwright) instead of a browser extension?

While Beachpatrol allows to control the browser from both the OS and from a browser extension, our priority was the OS. Therefore, something like Playwright was the natural choice.

Furthermore, while controlling the browser from an extensions is possible, Manifest v3 removed the ability to execute third-party strings of code. Popular automation extensions like Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey could also be affected by Manifest v3. The alternative is to embed the code into the extension, but that would requires re-bundling the extensions after every change. Other tricks do exist to make this approach work, and there is some hope for future Manifest v3 solutions, but this path is certainly tricky.

It is more likely that Selenium and related tools will continue to work in the foreseeable future given the business demand for traditional browser testing.

sebastiancarlos,

Unlike a password manager that just logs you in, Beachpatrol can run any automation task, like checking your email, downloading files, or filling out forms. You have to create Playwright scripts for these tasks and run them from a shell command. There is an example script already in the commands folder, which you can run with the command beackmsg smoke-test. The sky is the limit, basically.

sebastiancarlos,

Tbh these scripts are for my personal use, written in the way that makes sense for me. I only open sourced it as a joke an as an example of how reinventing your own wheel is not that hard sometimes, and comes with the benefit of doing just what you need it to do.

Actually I was thinking of adding a sysget fallback, as I might need to do some debian/fedora hacking soon.

sebastiancarlos,

Makes sense and you’re probably right, but I’ll tell you why I didn’t do it that way:

  1. I just did what came first to me
  2. I like the idea of the API defining the project structure
  3. When adding a new package manager, if that ever happens, I would like to see all other implementation of the same functionality on the same file, for help and inspiration
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