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Cypress Realworld App

A payment application to demonstrate real-world usage of Cypress testing methods, patterns, and workflows.

Install / Use

npx skills add cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app

Installs into whichever agent you are using.

README

<p align="center"> <!-- We use two SVGs here so that this displays correctly on Github. This might not look right in other Markdown previewers. --> <img alt="Cypress Real World App Logo" src="./src/svgs/rwa-logo-light.svg#gh-dark-mode-only" /> <img alt="Cypress Real World App Logo" src="./src/svgs/rwa-logo.svg#gh-light-mode-only" /> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://cypress.io"> <img width="140" alt="Cypress Logo" src="./src/svgs/built-by-cypress.svg" /> </a> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://cloud.cypress.io/projects/7s5okt/runs"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://cloud.cypress.io/badge/detailed/7s5okt/develop&style=flat&logo=cypress" /> </a> <a href="https://codecov.io/gh/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app"> <img src="https://codecov.io/gh/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app/branch/develop/graph/badge.svg" /> </a> <a href="https://percy.io/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app"> <img src="https://percy.io/static/images/percy-badge.svg" /> </a> <a href="#contributors-"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/all_contributors-6-green.svg?style=flat" /> </a> </p> <p align="center"> A payment application to demonstrate <strong>real-world</strong> usage of <a href="https://cypress.io">Cypress</a> testing methods, patterns, and workflows. </p> <p align="center"> <img style='width: 70%' alt="Cypress Real World App" src="./public/img/rwa-readme-screenshot.png" /> </p>

💬 Note from maintainers

This application is purely for demonstration and educational purposes. Its setup and configuration resemble typical real-world applications, but it's not a full-fledged production system. Use this app to learn, experiment, tinker, and practice application testing with Cypress.

Happy Testing!


Features

🛠 Built with [React][reactjs], [XState][xstate], [Express][express], [lowdb][lowdb], [Material-UI][material-ui] and [TypeScript][typescript] ⚡️ Zero database dependencies 🚀 Full-stack [Express][express]/[React][reactjs] application with real-world features and tests 👮‍♂️ Local Authentication 🔥 Database Seeding with End-to-end Tests 💻 CI/CD + [Cypress Cloud][cypresscloud]

Getting Started

The Cypress Real-World App (RWA) is a full-stack Express/React application backed by a local JSON database ([lowdb]).

The app is bundled with example data (data/database.json) that contains everything you need to start using the app and run tests out-of-the-box.

🚩 Note

You can login to the app with any of the example app users. The default password for all users is s3cret. Example users can be seen by running yarn list:dev:users.

Prerequisites

This project requires Node.js to be installed on your machine. Refer to the .node-version file for the exact version.

Yarn Classic is also required. Once you have Node.js installed, execute the following to install the npm module yarn (Classic - version 1) globally.

npm install yarn@1 -g

If you have Node.js' experimental Corepack feature enabled, then you should skip the step npm install yarn@1 -g to install Yarn Classic globally. The RWA project is locally configured for Corepack to use Yarn Classic (version 1).

Yarn Modern

This project is not compatible with Yarn Modern (version 2 and later).

Installation

To clone the repo to your local system and install dependencies, execute the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app
cd cypress-realworld-app
yarn

Mac users with M-series chips will need to prepend PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true.

PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true yarn install

Run the app

yarn dev

🚩 Note

The app will run on port 3000 (frontend) and 3001 (API backend) by default. Please make sure there are no other applications or services running on both ports. If you want to change the default ports, you can do so by modifying PORT and VITE_BACKEND_PORT variables in .env file. However, make sure the modified port numbers in .env are not committed into Git since the CI environments still expect the application to run on the default ports.

Start Cypress

yarn cypress:open

🚩 Note

If you have changed the default ports, then you need to update Cypress configuration file (cypress.config.ts) locally. There are three properties that you need to update in cypress.config.ts: e2e.baseUrl, expose.apiUrl, and expose.codeCoverage.url. The port number in e2e.baseUrl corresponds to PORT variable in .env file. Similarly, the port number in expose.apiUrl and expose.codeCoverage.url correspond to VITE_BACKEND_PORT. For example, if you have changed PORT to 13000 and VITE_BACKEND_PORT to 13001 in .env file, then your cypress.config.ts should look similar to the following snippet:

{
  expose: {
    apiUrl: "http://localhost:13001",
    codeCoverage: {
      url: "http://localhost:13001/__coverage__"
    },
  },
  e2e: {
    baseUrl: "http://localhost:13000"
  }
}

Avoid committing the modified cypress.config.ts into Git since the CI environments still expect the application to be run on default ports.

Tests

| Type | Location | | --------- | ---------------------------------------- | | api | cypress/tests/api | | ui | cypress/tests/ui | | component | src/(next to component) | | unit | src/__tests__ |

Database

  • The local JSON database is located in data/database.json and is managed with [lowdb].

  • The database is reseeded each time the application is started (via yarn dev). Database seeding is done in between each Cypress End-to-End test.

  • Updates via the React frontend are sent to the [Express][express] server and handled by a set of database utilities

  • Generate a new database using yarn db:seed.

  • An empty database seed is provided along with a script (yarn start:empty) to view the application without data.

Additional NPM Scripts

| Script | Description | | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | dev | Starts backend in watch mode and frontend | | dev:coverage | Starts backend in watch mode and frontend with instrumented code coverage enabled | | dev:auth0 | Starts backend in watch mode and frontend; Uses Auth0 for Authentication > Read Guide | | dev:okta | Starts backend in watch mode and frontend; Uses Okta for Authentication > Read Guide | | dev:cognito | Starts backend in watch mode and frontend; Uses Cognito for Authentication > Read Guide | | dev:google | Starts backend in watch mode and frontend; Uses Google for Authentication > Read Guide | | start | Starts backend and frontend | | types | Validates types | | db:seed | Generates fresh database seeds for json files in /data | | start:empty | Starts backend, frontend and Cypress with empty database seed | | tsnode | Customized ts-node command to get around react-scripts restrictions | | list:dev:users | Provides id and username for users in the dev database |

For a complete list of scripts see package.json

Code Coverage Report

The Cypress Real-World App uses the @cypress/code-coverage plugin to generate code coverage reports for the app frontend and backend.

To generate a code coverage report:

  1. Start the development server with coverage enabled by running yarn dev:coverage.
  2. Run yarn cypress:run --env coverage=true and wait for the test run to complete.
  3. Once the test run is complete, you can view the report at coverage/index.html.

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