Playwright BDD Without Cucumber: TypeScript Decorators and DataTables

If you've worked with Playwright for a while, you've probably had this conversation with a stakeholder or a QA lead: "Can we write our tests in Gherkin? The business wants to be able to read the test cases." The usual answer is to reach for CucumberJS or playwright-bdd . Both work, but they come with a cost, you now maintain .feature files alongside your test code, wire up a step definition runner, and manage a parallel toolchain that sits on top of Playwright. Your Playwright runner is effectiv