cypress

Cypress

Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

What is this?

Cypress comes packaged as an npm module, which is all you need to get started testing.

After installing you'll be able to:

• Open Cypress from the CLI
• Run Cypress from the CLI
• require Cypress as a module

Install

Please check our system requirements.

npm install --save-dev cypress

Documentation

Please visit our documentation for a full list of commands and examples.

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