[Feature]: Error: "context" and "page" fixtures are not supported in "beforeAll" since they are created on a per-test basis.

[DavitV-yan]

🚀 Feature Request

Hi all,
Is it possible to add support for the context and page fixtures in beforeAll?
The issue is that when I need to perform a one-time action, such as calling page.goto(), before running all tests, I can’t do this using fixtures in beforeAll. As a result, I’m forced to move this logic to beforeEach, which is not optimal for performance or test design.

Example

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Motivation

This proposal aims to improve test performance and flexibility by allowing one-time setup actions using context and page fixtures in beforeAll. It would reduce unnecessary repetition in beforeEach, enable cleaner test design, and better support common real-world testing scenarios where shared setup is required.

[Skn0tt]

Each test gets its own isolated context and page, so you need to perform these actions per-test. If you don't want to, the error message you're seeing outlines some alternatives:

playwright/packages/playwright/src/index.ts

Lines 357 to 359 in 8f729ba

	`"context" and "page" fixtures are not supported in "${hook}" since they are created on a per-test basis.`,
	`If you would like to reuse a single page between tests, create context manually with browser.newContext(). See https://aka.ms/playwright/reuse-page for details.`,
	`If you would like to configure your page before each test, do that in beforeEach hook instead.`,

Generally, there's very little overhead in creating a context or page, so don't worry about performance.