Record a HAR file in Playwright and replay it for deterministic offline test mocking

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Verified steps

  1. Create a browser context with the recordHar option: browser.newContext({ recordHar: { path: 'fixture.har', urlFilter: '**/api/**' } }) to capture only the relevant API traffic
  2. Navigate the page and perform the interactions whose network traffic you want to record; when done, call context.close() which finalizes and writes the HAR file to disk
  3. In your test, use the routeFromHAR option when creating the context: browser.newContext({ routeFromHAR: { path: 'fixture.har', notFound: 'abort' } }) to replay recorded responses without hitting the network
  4. Commit the HAR file to source control alongside the tests so CI runs are reproducible and do not depend on external API availability
  5. To update the HAR after an API change, re-record by running the context with recordHar against the live API and replacing the committed fixture file

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