[Feature]: debug with ability to step through code for API testing about playwright HOT 3 OPEN

It would be nice indeed to pause on the API request calls, but current inspector implementation is tightly coupled with browser context. You can use regular JS debugger in VS Code to step over the API requests as a workaround for now.

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Investigation notes

Give the following test:

import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';

test('get started link', async ({ request }) => {
  await request.get('https://playwright.dev/');
  await request.get('https://playwright.dev/docs/intro');
});

Running with npx playwright test --debug does not bring up the inspector. The reason is that Debugger class is only instantiated for BrowserContext and not for APIRequestContext.

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so there is no update or will not be added as a milestone?

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