
Add visual regression testing to your CI/CD without managing infrastructure
Add visual regression testing to your CI/CD without managing infrastructure Your frontend team pushed a CSS change. Looks good locally. But in production, the checkout button is misaligned on Safari. Three customers abandoned carts. You didn't know until the support team called. Visual regression testing catches this before production. But it's fragile: Flaky Puppeteer setups fail intermittently Managing screenshot baselines is error-prone Device matrix testing (desktop, mobile, tablet) explodes your test suite Maintaining headless Chrome in CI/CD is a nightmare There's a better way : Capture screenshots via API, compare pixel-by-pixel with pixelmatch. No browser infrastructure. No flakiness. Automatic detection of CSS regressions. The problem: visual bugs slip through Manual QA catches visual bugs. But manual QA: Doesn't scale (can't test every page variant) Misses edge cases (dark mode, different browsers, mobile) Is inconsistent (human eyes miss small shifts) Slows down deployment (
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