Enhancing Web Automation Reliability with Playwright's networkidle State

I came across playwright command "await page.waitForLoadState('networkidle') used to wait for the page to reach a specific load state. This is useful to ensure that the page has finished loading all resources and is in a stable state before performing further actions.

Understanding networkidle

The networkidle state in Playwright is used to indicate that the page has no more than two network connections for at least 500 milliseconds. This is particularly useful for ensuring that all resources, including asynchronous operations like AJAX requests, have finished loading.

Example::

await page.goto(config.baseUrl);

await page.waitForLoadState('networkidle'); // Ensures that the page is fully loaded