Understanding Locators in Vitest 

I am doing really well. I am doing things a lot more independently. It is going really well. I am writing some tests write now. I am struggling to grasp get by role. One of my mentors sent me the vitest docs.

I have a new rule about documentation from another mentor: 

"When I encounter something new, the first port of call should be how the docs describe it and summarise it." 

One more time: 

"When I encounter something new, the first port of call should be how the docs describe it and summarise it."

So I am being a good mentee. 

So what on earth is a locator?

A locator is "a representation of an element or a number of elements." 

"Every locator is defined by a string called a selector." What? Huh? Huh? Huh?

"Vitest abstracts this selector by providing convenient methods that generate them behind the scenes."

I understand almost nothing 

getByRole

Right this is the one I want so let's focus on that one for today 

I of course do not understand the example 

edit: I have since this morning written a ton of tests using getByRole 

I guess I no longer need this doc