Devtools make Playwright testing more difficult #318

TanStack Devtools version

0.9.2

Framework/Library version

React v19.2

Describe the bug and the steps to reproduce it

We just recently upgraded from using @tanstack/react-query-devtools and @tanstack/react-router-devtools to integrating them into the new @tanstack/react-devtools. However, this upgrade started to fail our Playwright E2E tests that did selections for IDs of items since they also show up in the query devtools when using defaultOpen: true. This lead us on a bit of a goose chase before realizing it was the devtools getting selected. This is obviously only a problem when doing tests locally with the devtools enables, but it is something we do quite often. For now setting defaultOpen: false on all plugins work, but it feels like a sad workaround. display: none on the #tanstack_devtools also work, but that breaks opening it without even more nasty hacks.

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Yes, I think I know how to fix it and will discuss it in the comments of this issue

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