My favorite Cypress plugins, part II

Advent day 24: more of Cypress plugins that help me write better tests

Wait, haven’t I already published a list with five of my favorite Cypress plugins? Yes, I have. But there are so many good Cypress plugins that the list can be quite long. Here are a few more of my plugins that I think you will find useful.

1. cypress-real-events is the plugin I reach for when I need native browser events like click, touch, and hover. The plugin’s author Dmitriy is all around great guy who has done a lot of amazing things (like solving the technical problems with Cypress Component Testing) and deserves a Twitter follow.

2. cypress-dark lets you customize the Test Runner color theme, something I enjoy doing every Halloween.

cypress-dark Halloween theme

3. cypress-expect is a plugin I use to verify the tests ran and finished with expected results, even when a test is expected to fail.

4. cypress-markdown-preprocessor and @cypress/fiddle let you write HTML for the app and the Cypress test inside a Markdown file. This is how I write every tested example posted at https://glebbahmutov.com/cypress-examples and answer your Cypress questions.

5. cypress-timestamps adds timestamps to the Command Log, the terminal, and the error message to let you debug the failed test, read the blog post.

UTC timestamps for each parent command

6. cypress-should-really is a collection of small utility functions that make writing complex Cypress assertions easier, see checking if a column is sorted example and checking list for duplicates example.

7. cy-search lets you search the Cypress documentation right from your terminal by typing npx cy-search. It even shows suggestions and lets you open the result in the browser.

   

   cy-search in action

PS: you might ask why some of my plugins are not listed on the Cypress Plugins page? After cy.dataSession rejection I don’t feel like asking to be listed anymore. Follow my work to learn about my plugins as soon as they come out or get updated.