Replace Cypress with Playwright for e2e testing

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Cypress cannot navigate across sites, blocking OIDC workflow testing. Playwright supports cross-site navigation.

Changes

Replaced testing framework

• Removed Cypress (4.12.1), @testing-library/cypress, eslint-plugin-cypress, start-server-and-test
• Added @playwright/test (1.56.1)
• Removed 225 packages, ~4200 lines from lock file

Test infrastructure

• playwright.config.js - webServer config auto-starts showcase dev server
• e2e/showcase.spec.js - validates home page loads (initial test scope per requirements)
• Updated scripts: npm test, npm run test:headed, npm run test:ui

Configuration updates

• .eslintrc.js - removed Cypress globals and plugin
• .gitignore - Playwright artifacts instead of Cypress
• README.md - added testing instructions

Test implementation

test.describe('Showcase', () => {
  test('should load the showcase home page', async ({ page }) => {
    await page.goto('/');
    await expect(page).toHaveTitle(/svelte-oidc demo/);
  });
});

Playwright's webServer eliminates need for start-server-and-test wrapper.

Showcase page under test

Current test scope limited to home page load validation. Framework now supports cross-site navigation for future OIDC flow tests.

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<issue_title>replace cypress with playwright for end to end tests.</issue_title>
<issue_description>Cypress is unable to navigate across sites in a test, which is necessary for end to end tests of OIDC workflows. Playwright can navigate across sites. The project should replace cypress as the e2e testing framework with playwright. At present the scope of the tests should be limited to just loading the showcase home page.</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes replace cypress with playwright for end to end tests. #61

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Pull Request Overview

This PR migrates the project from Cypress to Playwright for end-to-end testing and adds semantic-release for automated versioning and publishing.

Key changes:

• Replaced Cypress with Playwright for E2E testing, including updated configuration, test scripts, and a sample test
• Integrated semantic-release with GitHub Actions for automated versioning and NPM publishing
• Updated CI/CD workflow to include build, test, and release steps with appropriate permissions

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 13 out of 15 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
playwright.config.js	Adds Playwright configuration targeting the showcase dev server on port 5000
package.json	Replaces Cypress dependencies with Playwright and semantic-release packages; updates test scripts
e2e/showcase.spec.js	Creates new Playwright test file with basic showcase page load test
cypress/*	Removes all Cypress configuration and test files
.releaserc.json	Adds semantic-release configuration for main, next, and version branches
.gitignore	Replaces Cypress output directories with Playwright equivalents
.github/workflows/cicd.yml	Expands workflow to run on push to release branches, adds E2E tests and semantic-release steps
.eslintrc.js	Removes Cypress ESLint plugin and globals
README.md	Updates documentation with Playwright testing instructions and semantic-release process

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Pull Request Overview

Copilot reviewed 13 out of 15 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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Pull Request Overview

Copilot reviewed 13 out of 15 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

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🎉 This PR is included in version 1.0.0-next.2 🎉

The release is available on:

• npm package (@next dist-tag)
• GitHub release

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🎉 This PR is included in version 1.2.0 🎉

The release is available on:

• npm package (@latest dist-tag)
• GitHub release

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