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A somewhat strange final conclusion in light of the fact that it is also indicated here that Playwright is better in both installation and run. Playwright is obviously the clear winner in both UI and API testing. The only thing I like about Cypress is its browser-based test runner however, this doesn't matter for the API testing.

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Very informative article, thanks. I did everything in Postman step by step using the "Paysis" remote repository. The only small inaccuracy in the article, it seems to me, is in the third sentence in the "Collection" section the token environment variable should be instead of the baseUrl variable.
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