[Feature] Playwright.connect() for remote connection

Current API allows to connect to Playwright server remotely by means of browserType.launchServer() and browserType.connect(). This requires launching local instance of playwright first and then establishing connections to each of the browsers individually. This can be replaced with a single client->server connection when creating Playwright client (e.g. new Playwright(<websocket address>). Among other things this approach doesn’t require launching Playwright driver on the client side, so language bindings wouldn’t need to bundle it in such cases.

[vania-pooh]

@pavelfeldman at least there should be some way to connect to remote web socket. Otherwise you limit Playwright to local test execution only.

[kumaraditya303]

Another use case would be to run Playwright browser instances on a remote server and run the clients as light weight docker container e.g. alpine linux to run the tests without using driver locally.