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@cypress/core-runner
Advanced tools
![Runner](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1157043/17947042/e9352ae2-6a18-11e6-85af-3670c7cfba03.png)
The runner is the minimal "chrome" around the user's app and has the following responsibilities:
## Install project dependencies
npm install
## Runs a dev server (localhost:8000 if free, but could be different - check the output in the console)
## Watches all project files
## - runs *.js and *.jsx through babel and bundles with browserify into single runner.js in dist
## - runs associated unit test of file saved and outputs to terminal
## - compiles *.scss files to single runner.css in dist
npm start
## Runs all tests
npm test
FAQs
![Runner](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1157043/17947042/e9352ae2-6a18-11e6-85af-3670c7cfba03.png)
The npm package @cypress/core-runner receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, @cypress/core-runner popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @cypress/core-runner demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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