Cypress

Cypress is a next generation front end testing tool built for the modern web. It runs inside the browser (unlike Selenium/Playwright) which gives it native access to the DOM.

When to Use

• Component & End-to-End Web Testing: Running browser-based functional tests directly inside Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
• Time-Travel Debugging: Stepping back through snapshots of DOM state taken during test command execution.
• Network Interception & Mocking: Stubbing API responses, delaying network latency, and testing edge error cases with cy.intercept().
• Component Isolation Testing: Testing isolated React, Vue, Svelte, or Angular components without bootstrapping full backends.

Quick Start