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Playwright vs Cypress: 1.47s vs 4.24s Smoke

Playwright 1.55.1 Chromium vs Cypress 14.5.4 Electron on one local smoke (visit /, assert h1, click, assert). Warm medians (7 rounds after 1 warm-up): Playwright 1,466 ms vs Cypress 4,243 ms (~2.9x). Disk: PW node_modules ~12 MB + cache ~918 MB; Cypress node_modules ~23 MB + cache ~601 MB. Fixture /workspace/bench-pw-cy/.

6 Oct 20264 min read

vite-plugin-checker: Plain Vite Shipped My TS Error

vite-plugin-checker 0.10.3 with enableBuild on Vite 7.3.6 / TS 5.9.3 / React 19: clean wall medians plain 1,949 ms vs checker 2,018 ms (+69 ms) vs tsc --noEmit 985 ms. Injected TS error: plain vite exit 0 (ships dist) x3; checker exit 2 x3; tsc exit 2 x3. Fixture 122 modules.

6 Oct 20265 min read

esbuild-register vs jiti: 343ms vs 540ms Cold

esbuild-register 3.6.0 vs jiti 2.7.0 on a 61-file TypeScript graph: cold wall medians 343 ms vs 540 ms (~1.57x); after jiti disk cache warm, 185 ms vs esbuild-register 350 ms. Same printed result 970.

5 Oct 20264 min read

syncpack vs npm-check: Should You Switch? 491ms vs 1.5s

syncpack 15.3.3 lint vs npm-check 6.0.1 on a 12-package npm workspaces fixture: syncpack median 491 ms offline with 21 version mismatches; npm-check --skip-unused median 1.54 s at root (registry).

5 Oct 20265 min read

size-limit vs bundlesize: Should You Switch? 761ms vs 604ms

size-limit 11.2.0 (@size-limit/file) vs bundlesize 1.0.0-beta.2 on 3 prebuilt dist JS files: brotli median 761 ms vs gzip 604 ms; size-limit gzip mode 621 ms. App reported 57.69 kB brotli / 62.20 kB gzip / 60.74 kB bundlesize gzip.

5 Oct 20265 min read

Should You Leave Depcruise? 679ms Test

Madge 8.0.0 vs dependency-cruiser 16.10.2 on 116 JS files: median wall 679 ms vs 1122 ms (~1.65x). Both found the same 2 circular dependency groups. Depcruise also reported 120 modules / 193 dependencies.

5 Oct 20264 min read

Should You Leave Nx? 3378ms vs 1177ms

Turbo 2.11.7 vs Nx 23.2.1 on 7 packages / 336 JS files: cold median 1177 ms vs 3378 ms (~2.9x). Warm both 7/7 local cache hits (Turbo wall ~138 ms / tool ~16 ms; Nx wall ~668 ms with daemon / tool ~31 ms).

5 Oct 20265 min read

Should You Leave Prettier? 1.59s vs 0.51s

dprint 0.60.1 vs Prettier 3.9.9 on 180 files (120 JS + 40 JSON + 20 MD, 38925 B pristine): write medians 514 ms vs 1586 ms; check 455 ms vs 1313 ms. Output 44805 vs 45285 B. All 120 JS files differed on arrow-param parentheses under these defaults.

5 Oct 20265 min read

Lily in CI: Trying Fuzz-Based Backdoor Detection on a Real Repo

Hands-on Lily (ASE 2026) on an owned C toy: rosa/lily 0.6.0 pin, directed catch of a localhost-bind trigger, clean refactor with zero flags, discovery miss, and CI cost math.

30 Sept 20268 min read