What is Cypress?

Cypress is an open-source JavaScript test automation framework which was initially focused on end-to-end and unit testing. From Cypress 10 onwards component testing support also has been added which still in the beta stage at the time of writing. Cypress is primarily designed to test any application which runs and can in web browsers ;)

System Requirements

Usually you will be able to run cypress comfortably locally if your machine is capable web development. But make sure the following requirements met.

If all the above minimum requirements are met, then you can start testing with cypress once done installing.

Installing Cypress

You can either use npm or yarn as the package manager to install cypress.

You can also directly download the cypress binary from the Cypress CDN if you are not using node or npm

Opening Cypress

Once you have successfully installed cypress by following the above steps, you can open cypress executing any of the following commands from the command line. Please note that cypress will be downloading cypress binary from the CDN once the below command is executed in the CLI, thus might take sometime depending on your internet connection speed.

Using npx (if you have npm > v5.2 installed)

Using yarn

Using full path of the installed cypress

Using npm bin

If you downloaded cypress binary from the CDN directly, you can open cypress by double clicking on cypress.exe after extracting the downloaded folder.