The Playwright Playbook — Part 2: Network Interception — The Complete Guide "Your tests should own the network — not be at its mercy." In Part 1, we fixed the foundation — proper selectors, storageState , POM, and a clean playwright.config.ts . If you haven't read that, start there. The project structure we built in Part 1 is what we're building on today. Now we go to the feature that separates intermediate Playwright users from advanced ones. Network interception. Most people know page.route()