Would love to learn from your experiences on any better frameworks you might have used, though!
Would love to get your feedback so we can add it :)
It’s as if you would test your app with curl, very fast and reliable. On the other hand, contrary to Selenium, there is no Javascript engine so you can only test the “raw” DOM or json response sent by the network (and not a DOM managed and rendered by a Javascript front end framework).
(Disclaimer: I’m one of Hurl maintainer)
[1]: https://hurl.dev
API/request level testing is great when appropriate, but testing what happens in browser won't be possible without using something like selenium, nightwatch or playwright
On the other hand, you can also easily test use cases where the browser is “helping” you (for instance, you want to test that your backend didn’t accept an invalid email, but your HTML form has HTML5 validation that prevents a user to enter an invalid email). Or you want to test HttpsOnly cookie attributes. But it can’t do UI integration tests.