Reuse log in state for all tests with pytest-playwright and Django - pytest

Question

I'm trying to create a pytest fixture that will allow all my tests to reuse a single authenticated context. The goal is for the fixture to run once, yielding a context. Then the other tests can just reuse the authenticated context via the fixture. I also need this solution to run in CI.
The code below runs, but test_home does not retain a logged in state for some reason and redirects to the log in page.
conftest.py
import logging
import os
import pytest
from django.conf import settings
from user.models import User
from user.tests.factories import UserFactory
#pytest.fixture()
def user() -> User:
return UserFactory()
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_ALLOW_ASYNC_UNSAFE", "true")
settings.ALLOWED_HOSTS += ["127.0.0.1"]
#pytest.mark.django_db
#pytest.fixture()
def playwright_user(user):
password = "HappyAccident$1"
email = "bob.ross#happytrees.com"
user.email = email
user.set_password(password)
user.save()
logging.info("Saved test user")
#pytest.fixture()
def logged_in(
live_server,
playwright,
playwright_user,
) -> None:
"""Create context (i.e. general configuration) for Playwright"""
browser = playwright.chromium.launch(headless=False)
context = browser.new_context(
base_url="http://127.0.0.1:8080", storage_state="auth.json"
)
page = context.new_page()
page.goto("http://127.0.0.1:8080/")
page.get_by_placeholder("E-mail address login").fill("bob.ross#happytrees.com")
page.get_by_placeholder("Password password").fill("HappyAccident$1")
page.get_by_role("button", name="Sign In").click()
storage = context.storage_state(path="auth.json")
logging.info("Created authenticated context")
context.close()
#pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def context(playwright):
browser = playwright.chromium.launch(headless=False)
context = browser.new_context(
base_url="http://127.0.0.1:8080", storage_state="auth.json"
)
yield context
context.close()
test_integration.py (note: the home page below is log in protected.)
import logging
import pytest
from django.urls import reverse
from playwright.sync_api import Page, sync_playwright
pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db
def test_login(live_server, logged_in):
logging.info("Logged In")
pass
def test_home(
context,
live_server,
page: Page,
) -> None:
"""Create a new Organization Parent Type"""
page.goto(reverse("home"))
# redirects to the log in page instead of taking me to the home page :(
I'm not sure why test_home goes to a log in screen rather than directly opening the home page. If things were working properly it should go directly to the home page. Any help would be really appreciated!