Configuring Cypress for a Vue.js application
Cypress is a JavaScript E2E testing framework. It’s designed to solve the very specific need of writing E2E tests using JavaScript. This is in contrast to other full-fledged browser automation solutions, such as WebdriverIO (https://webdriver.io/), Selenium WebDriver (https://www.selenium.dev/), Puppeteer (https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer/), and Playwright (https://github.com/microsoft/playwright), which are commonly used to write E2E tests.
The big difference with Cypress compared to these other solutions is its singular focus on writing E2E tests (as opposed to generic browser automation). Tests can only be written using JavaScript (Selenium supports other languages), and require Chrome, Edge, or Firefox (WebKit support is in development).
Cypress has a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to run and debug tests locally and comes with built-in assertion and stubbing/mocking libraries.
To add Cypress to a new...