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owickstromtoday at 1:00 PM4 repliesview on HN

Author here, happy to answer questions about Bombadil! :)


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degeneratetoday at 2:46 PM

From a project management perspective, the 5 examples don't help me understand how/why I might switch from Playwright/Cypress to this framework. It seems like Bombadil is a much lower-level test framework focusing on DOM properties but in the "Why Bombadil?" introduction you say "maintaining suites of Playwright or Cypress tests takes a lot of work" ... I'd like if there was an example showing how this is true, perhaps a 1:1 example of Playwright vs Bombadil for testing something such as notifications clearing when I click clear. Basically, beefing up examples with real-world ones that Playwright users might have written is a good way to foster adoption.

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owickstromtoday at 1:01 PM

btw, some background on the project: https://wickstrom.tech/2026-01-28-there-and-back-again-from-...

javierhonducotoday at 5:35 PM

Super cool project! Curious on how this compares to Meticulous in terms of functionality and approach. Thanks!

bombcartoday at 2:05 PM

All I can think of is "the Token Ring had no power over him" but then I realized that "token ring" has a completely different meaning now in the age of AI.

Nice name, now who is he?