feat(ui-test): Playwright UI E2E suite — helpers + feature flows (stage 2)

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -328,8 +328,6 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         working-directory: ./ui
-        env:
-          CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY: 0 # Skip Cypress binary - not needed for lint/unit tests
         run: npm ci
 
       - name: Run lint

.github/workflows/ui-chromatic.yaml

@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         working-directory: ./ui
-        env:
-          CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY: 0
         run: npm ci
 
       - name: Build Storybook

.github/workflows/ui-playwright.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+name: UI Playwright E2E
+
+# Page-level browser E2E for the UI against a mocked backend.
+# Kept separate from CI so the main workflow does not need paths-filter or
+# conditional steps. No cluster required — the stub backend is booted by Playwright.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, "release/**"]
+    paths:
+      - "ui/**"
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, "release/**"]
+    paths:
+      - "ui/**"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  playwright:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version-file: "ui/.nvmrc"
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: ui/package-lock.json
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        working-directory: ./ui
+        run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Install Playwright browser
+        working-directory: ./ui
+        run: npx playwright install --with-deps chromium
+
+      - name: Run Playwright tests
+        working-directory: ./ui
+        run: npm run test:pw
+
+      - name: Upload Playwright report
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: playwright-report
+          path: |
+            ui/playwright-report
+            ui/playwright/test-results
+          retention-days: 14

ui/.gitignore

@@ -42,3 +42,8 @@ next-env.d.ts
 
 # storybook
 /storybook-static
+
+# playwright
+/playwright-report
+/playwright/test-results
+/playwright/.cache

ui/Dockerfile

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ RUN echo "Installing on $BUILDPLATFORM" \
 
 ENV DO_NOT_TRACK=1
 ENV NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1
-ENV CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY=0
 
 WORKDIR /app/ui