A browser-test layer: Playwright against a real Nextcloud

[karlitschek]

Item 11 of the fresh look, third part. 1,500 unit tests and an integration suite could not see a page that stays empty because a bundle did not load, a route answered the wrong shape, or a dialog never closed — this can.

What is here

tests/e2e/ (Playwright, Chromium), five smoke tests that do what a person does in their first five minutes, against a real Nextcloud with the app installed and the committed bundle in js/ — nothing mocked:

1. sign in through Nextcloud's own login form, open the app: sidebar entries and the feed are there, the New post button too;
2. write a post in the dialog → the dialog closes and the post is the newest thing in My Feed;
3. Discover has its switcher with People and Starter packs;
4. the timeline switcher moves between Global and Local (URL follows);
5. a Nextcloud group the account is in is a list in the sidebar, and opens as its own timeline headed with the group's name (E2E_GROUP; skipped when unset).

.github/workflows/e2e.yml sets up a throwaway server for every pull request — stable35, SQLite, the app enabled, a second user and a design group — runs the suite, and keeps the Playwright report and traces as an artifact when something fails.

Locally: npx playwright install chromium, then E2E_BASE_URL=… E2E_USER=… E2E_PASSWORD=… npm run test:e2e. Paths are resolved under the base URL, so an instance at /nextcloud works like one at the root (that was the first thing the run against devel caught). npm run lint covers tests/e2e too.

Verification

• Run green against devel as sofia (5 passed, 1.5 min) before committing — including the group list, which Nextcloud groups as Social lists #2169 put there.
• The workflow itself runs for the first time on this PR; if the throwaway server needs a tweak (trusted domain, PHP version), that shows up here and I'll fix it on the branch.
• @playwright/test is a devDependency only; the bundle is unchanged apart from the version. README documents the suite; Technical-Debt.md's "since then" records it.

Version 0.19.40.

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