[BUG] "Requiring @playwright/test second time" when using shared package

Code Snippet

https://github.com/Forfold/playwright-test

Describe the bug

Related to #15349 and #11889

I have a playwright-auth package I’m creating to handle some login stuff that I plan to use in multiple repos I’m working on. playwright-auth exports a login() and a globalLogin() function. I’ve created the above repo playwright-test acting as my auth package.

I see Error: Requiring @playwright/test second time but both repos utilize @playwright/test for different reasons.

My playwright-auth package utilizes chromium, expect, request, and Page.

My website repos use test and expect

Full error output:

Running 0 test using 0 worker


Error: Requiring @playwright/test second time, 
First:
Error: 

   at node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/index.js:73

  71 |   }
  72 | } else {
> 73 |   process['__pw_initiator__'] = new Error().stack;
     |                                 ^
  74 | }
  75 |
  76 | const test = _baseTest.extend({

    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Z0027PF/git/playwright-test/example/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/index.js:73:33)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1120:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1174:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:998:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:839:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1022:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Z0027PF/git/playwright-test/example/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.js:17:13)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1120:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1174:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:998:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:839:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1022:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Z0027PF/git/playwright-test/example/playwright/login.spec.ts:1:1)

Second: 
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Z0027PF/git/playwright-test/example/node_modules/playwright-test/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/index.js:68:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Z0027PF/git/playwright-test/example/node_modules/playwright-test/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.js:17:13)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Z0027PF/git/playwright-test/example/node_modules/playwright-test/dist/index.js:16:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Z0027PF/git/playwright-test/example/playwright/login.spec.ts:5:23)

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[dgozman]

@Forfold We have to reproduce this issue to be able to debug it. If you can provide a full repro that we can replicate locally, please file a new issue with it, and link to this one.

[Forfold]

playwright.config.ts seems to be in the wrong place, based on the relative paths it uses mv src/playwright.config.ts .

From your comment @dgozman it looks like I may need a second config file for playwright in my repo. The config included there is for the example website only.

However, regarding installing the package from a tgz file, I don’t know if I would expect my users to do that. I would assume that importing login should work out of the box if they install my playwright-auth package with npm and have their own playwright config setup.

I’ll do some more exhaustive testing locally. I don’t really have it in me to host a dummy package on NPM just for this example.

There will be no relative pathing in a real world situation is what I’ve been trying to explain

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edit: looks like adding a second config may have solved the issue. I would think that a config wouldn’t be needed for the helper package since it’s not a test runner, but I’ll take it