[Question] How to recognize if the user is not logged in?

I am using the Playwright Test with Typescript. I have implemented the authentication as described in https://playwright.dev/docs/test-auth#reuse-signed-in-state I am testing the eCommerce app.
I have a case where I want to do the checkout as a guest user (not logged in).
For my test I put test.use({ storageState: { cookies: [], origins: [] } }); in the describe bock and it works like a charm. But then, because of the POM, I would like to have separate flows based on the fact if the user is logged in or not.
My question is: how to check that? how do I check if I am running the test with the logged-in user or guest customer?
I have done this so far on the cart-page.ts:

public async clickCheckoutBtn(context: BrowserContext) {
    let isLoggedInUser: boolean = await Utils.isLoggedInUser(context);
    console.log('isLoggedInUser = ' + isLoggedInUser);
    if (isLoggedInUser) {
      // Necessary in order for the NEXT button on the Shipment Checkout Form to be clickable
      await Promise.all([
        this.checkoutBtn.click(),
        this.page.waitForURL(/.*\/delivery-address\/add$/),  // this is not the flow that happens with the guest customer, so I need to avoid it for the guest user
      ]);
    } else {
      this.checkoutBtn.click();
    }
  }

This is how I check it for now.

  public static async isLoggedInUser(
    context: BrowserContext
  ): Promise<boolean> {
    let storageState = await context.storageState();
    let JSESSIONID = storageState.cookies.filter(
      (item) => item.name === 'JSESSIONID'
    );
    console.log(JSESSIONID);
    if (JSESSIONID) return true;
    return false;
  }
}

But it doesn’t work as I would expect. JSESSIONID is still present in the browser cookies even if I am logged out.
Is there any better mechanism in order to check this?
I also noticed that when doing it manually in the app if I:

1. log in -> JSESSIONID is present
2. log out -> JSESSIONID is still there (I would expect not to be anymore)

I maybe don’t understand how my app works internally and need to investigate that. But maybe there is some more standard way to check if you are logged in or not?

[rwoll]

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/tree/main/tests

See the config folder and then its siblings

[rwoll]

One note: fixtures are lazy by default, so they will only run and be setup if referred to in your test parameters (either explicitly or as a dependency of another fixture you use)