Migrating `cy.route()` to `cy.intercept()`

This guide details how to change your test code to migrate from cy.route() to cy.intercept(). cy.server() and cy.route() are deprecated in Cypress 6.0.0. In a future release, support for cy.server() and cy.route() will be removed.

Please also refer to the full documentation for cy.intercept().

Match simple route

In many use cases, you can replace cy.route() with cy.intercept() and remove the call to cy.server() (which is no longer necessary).

Before

// Set up XHR listeners using cy.route()
cy.server()
cy.route('/users').as('getUsers')
cy.route('POST', '/project').as('createProject')
cy.route('PATCH', '/projects/*').as('updateProject')

After

// Intercept HTTP requests
cy.intercept('/users').as('getUsers')
cy.intercept('POST', '/project').as('createProject')
cy.intercept('PATCH', '/projects/*').as('updateProject')

Match against `url` and `path`

The url argument to cy.intercept() matches against the full url, as opposed to the url or path in cy.route(). If you’re using the url argument in cy.intercept(), you may need to update your code depending on the route you’re trying to match.

Before

// Match XHRs with a path or url of /users
cy.server()
cy.route({
  method: 'POST',
  url: '/users'
}).as('getUsers')

After

// Match HTTP requests with a path of /users
cy.route({
  method: 'POST',
  path: '/users'
}).as('getUsers')

// OR
// Match HTTP requests with an exact url of https://example.cypress.io/users
cy.route({
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://example.cypress.io/users'
}).as('getUsers')

`cy.wait()` object

The object returned by cy.wait() is different from intercepted HTTP requests using cy.intercept() than the object returned from an awaited cy.route() XHR.

Before

// Wait for XHR from cy.route()
cy.route('POST', '/users').as('createUser')
// ...
cy.wait('@createUser')
  .then(({ requestBody, responseBody, status }) => {
    expect(status).to.eq(200)
    expect(requestBody.firstName).to.eq('Jane')
    expect(responseBody.firstName).to.eq('Jane')
  })

After

// Wait for intercepted HTTP request
cy.intercept('POST', '/users').as('createUser')
// ...
cy.wait('@createUser')
  .then(({ request, response }) => {
    expect(response.statusCode).to.eq(200)
    expect(request.body.name).to.eq('Jane')
    expect(response.body.name).to.eq('Jane')
  })

Fixtures

You can stub requests and response with fixture data by defining a fixture property in the routeHandler argument for cy.intercept().

Before

// Stub response with fixture data using cy.route()
cy.route('GET', '/projects', 'fx:projects')

After

// Stub response with fixture data using cy.intercept()
cy.intercept('GET', '/projects', {
  fixture: 'projects'
})

Override route matchers

Unlike cy.route(), cy.intercept() currently does not allow you to override a previous response. For more information on this, see #9302 and this blog post. Overriding responses will be added in a future release.

Migrating to Cypress 6.0

This guide details the changes and how to change your code to migrate to Cypress 6.0. See the full changelog for 6.0.

Non-existent element assertions

Key takeway: Use .should('not.exist') to assert that an element does not exist in the DOM (not .should('not.be.visible'), etc).

In previous versions of Cypress, there was a possibility for tests to falsely pass when asserting a negative state on non-existent elements.

For example, in the tests below we want to test that the search dropdown is no longer visible when the search input is blurred because we hide the element in CSS styles. Except in this test, we’ve mistakenly misspelled one of our selectors.

cy.get('input[type=search]').type('Cypress')
cy.get('#dropdown').should('be.visible')
cy.get('input[type=search]').blur()

// below we misspelled "dropdown" in the selector 😞
// the assertions falsely pass in Cypress < 6.0
// and will correctly fail in Cypress 6.0 +
cy.get('#dropdon').should('not.be.visible')
cy.get('#dropdon').should('not.have.class', 'open')
cy.get('#dropdon').should('not.contain', 'Cypress')

In 6.0, these assertions will now correctly fail, telling us that the #dropdon element doesn’t exist in the DOM.

Assertions on non-existent elements

This fix may cause some breaking changes in your tests if you are relying on assertions such as not.be.visible or not.contains to test that the DOM element did not exist in the DOM. This means you’ll need to update your test code to be more specific about your assertions on non-existent elements.

Before Assert that non existent element was not visible

it('test', () => {
  // the .modal element is removed from the DOM on click
  cy.get('.modal').find('.close').click()
  // assertions below pass in < 6.0, but properly fail in 6.0+
  cy.get('.modal').should('not.be.visible')
  cy.get('.modal').should('not.contain', 'Upgrade')
})

After Assert that non existent element does not exist

it('test', () => {
  // the .modal element is removed from the DOM on click
  cy.get('.modal').find('.close').click()
  // we should instead assert that the element doesn't exist
  cy.get('.modal').should('not.exist')
})

Opacity visibility

DOM elements with opacity: 0 style are no longer considered to be visible. This includes elements with an ancestor that has opacity: 0 since a child element can never have a computed opacity greater than that of an ancestor.

Elements where the CSS property (or ancestors) is opacity: 0 are still considered actionable however and any action commands used to interact with the element will perform the action. This matches browser’s implementation on how they regard elements with opacity: 0.

Assert visibility of `opacity: 0` element

Before Failed assertion that opacity: 0 element is not visible.

it('test', () => {
  // '.hidden' has 'opacity: 0' style.
  // In < 5.0 this assertion would fail
  cy.get('.hidden').should('not.be.visible')
})

After Passed assertion that opacity: 0 element is not visible.

it('test', () => {
  // '.hidden' has 'opacity: 0' style.
  // In 6.0 this assertion will pass
  cy.get('.hidden').should('not.be.visible')
})

Perform actions on `opacity: 0` element

In all versions of Cypress, you can interact with elements that have opacity: 0 style.

it('test', () => {
  // '.hidden' has 'opacity: 0' style.
  cy.get('.hidden').click()       // ✅ clicks on element
  cy.get('.hidden').type('hi')    // ✅ types into element
  cy.get('.hidden').check()       // ✅ checks element
  cy.get('.hidden').select('yes') // ✅ selects element
})

`cy.wait(alias)` type

cy.route() is deprecated in 6.0.0. We encourage the use of cy.intercept() instead. Due to this deprecation, the type yielded by cy.wait(alias) has changed.

Before Before 6.0.0, cy.wait(alias) would yield an object of type WaitXHR.

After In 6.0.0 and onwards, cy.wait(alias) will yield an object of type Interception. This matches the new interception object type used for cy.intercept().

Restore old behavior

If you need to restore the type behavior prior to 6.0.0 for cy.wait(alias), you can declare a global override for cy.wait() like so:

declare global {
  namespace Cypress {
    interface Chainable<Subject = any> {
      wait(alias: string): Chainable<Cypress.WaitXHR>
    }
  }
}

`—disable-dev-shm-usage`

We now pass —disable-dev-shm-usage to the Chrome browser flags by default. If you’re passing this flag in your plugins file, you can now remove this code.

Before Passing flag in plugins file.

// cypress/plugins/index.js
module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('before:browser:launch', (browser = {}, launchOptions) => {
    if (browser.family === 'chromium' && browser.name !== 'electron') {
      launchOptions.args.push('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
    }

    return launchOptions
  })
}

After Remove flag from plugins file.

// cypress/plugins/index.js
module.exports = (on, config) => {}

Restore old behavior

If you need to remove the flag in 6.0.0+, you can follow the workaround documented here: #9242.

Migrating to Cypress 5.0

This guide details the changes and how to change your code to migrate to Cypress 5.0. See the full changelog for 5.0.

Tests retries

Test retries are available in Cypress 5.0. This means that tests can be re-run a number of times before potentially being marked as a failed test. Read the Test Retries doc for more information on how this works and how to turn on test retries.

When test retries are turned on, there will now be a screenshot taken for every failed attempt, so there could potentially be more than 1 screenshot per test failure. Read the Test Retries doc for more information on how this works.

The cypress-plugin-retries plugin has been deprecated in favor of test retries built into Cypress. There’s guidance below on how to migrate from the cypress-plugin-retries plugin to Cypress’s built-in test retries.

Configure test retries via the CLI

Before Setting retries with cypress-plugin-retries via env vars

CYPRESS_RETRIES=2 cypress run

After Setting test retries in Cypress 5.0 via env vars

CYPRESS_RETRIES=2 cypress run

Configure test retries in the configuration file

Before Setting retries with cypress-plugin-retries via configuration

{
  "env":
  {
    "RETRIES": 2
  }
}

After Setting test retries in Cypress 5.0 via configuration

{
  "retries": 1
}

runMode allows you to define the number of test retries when running cypress run
openMode allows you to define the number of test retries when running cypress open

{
  "retries": {
    "runMode": 1,
    "openMode": 3
  }
}

Configure test retries per test

Before Setting retries with cypress-plugin-retries via the test

it('test', () => {
  Cypress.currentTest.retries(2)
})

After Setting test retries in Cypress 5.0 via test options

it('allows user to login', {
  retries: 2
}, () => {
  // ...
})

runMode allows you to define the number of test retries when running cypress run
openMode allows you to define the number of test retries when running cypress open

it('allows user to login', {
  retries: {
    runMode: 2,
    openMode: 3
  }
}, () => {
  // ...
})

Module API results

To more accurately reflect result data for runs with test retries, the structure of each run’s runs array resolved from the Promise returned from cypress.run() of the Module API has changed.

Mainly there is a new attempts Array on each test which will reflect the result of each test retry.

Before results.runs Module API results

{
  // ...
  "runs": [{
    // ...
    "hooks": [{
      "hookId": "h1",
      "hookName": "before each",
      "title": [ "before each hook" ],
      "body": "function () {\n  expect(true).to.be["true"];\n}"
    }],
    // ...
    "screenshots": [{
      "screenshotId": "8ddmk",
      "name": null,
      "testId": "r2",
      "takenAt": "2020-08-05T08:52:20.432Z",
      "path": "User/janelane/my-app/cypress/screenshots/spec.js/test (failed).png",
      "height": 720,
      "width": 1280
    }],
    "stats": {
      // ...
      "wallClockStartedAt": "2020-08-05T08:38:37.589Z",
      "wallClockEndedAt": "2018-07-11T17:53:35.675Z",
      "wallClockDuration": 1171
    },
    "tests": [{
      "testId": "r2",
      "title": [ "test" ],
      "state": "failed",
      "body": "function () {\n  expect(true).to.be["false"];\n}",
      "stack": "AssertionError: expected true to be false\n' +
        '    at Context.eval (...cypress/integration/spec.js:5:21",
      "error": "expected true to be false",
      "timings": {
        "lifecycle": 16,
        "test": {...}
      },
      "failedFromHookId": null,
      "wallClockStartedAt": "2020-08-05T08:38:37.589Z",
      "wallClockDuration": 1171,
      "videoTimestamp": 4486
    }],
  }],
  // ...
}

After results.runs Module API results

{
  // ...
  "runs": [{
    // ...
    "hooks": [{
      "hookName": "before each",
      "title": [ "before each hook" ],
      "body": "function () {\n  expect(true).to.be["true"];\n}"
    }],
    // ...
    "stats": {
      // ...
      "startedAt": "2020-08-05T08:38:37.589Z",
      "endedAt": "2018-07-11T17:53:35.675Z",
      "duration": 1171
    },
    "tests": [{
      "title": [ "test" ],
      "state": "failed",
      "body": "function () {\n  expect(true).to.be["false"];\n}",
      "displayError": "AssertionError: expected true to be false\n' +
      '    at Context.eval (...cypress/integration/spec.js:5:21",
      "attempts": [{
        "state": "failed",
        "error": {
          "message": "expected true to be false",
          "name": "AssertionError",
          "stack": "AssertionError: expected true to be false\n' +
      '    at Context.eval (...cypress/integration/spec.js:5:21"
        },
        "screenshots": [{
          "name": null,
          "takenAt": "2020-08-05T08:52:20.432Z",
          "path": "User/janelane/my-app/cypress/screenshots/spec.js/test (failed).png",
          "height": 720,
          "width": 1280
        }],
        "startedAt": "2020-08-05T08:38:37.589Z",
        "duration": 1171,
        "videoTimestamp": 4486
      }]
    }],
  }],
  // ...
}

Cookies `whitelist` option renamed

The Cypress.Cookies.defaults() whitelist option has been renamed to preserve to more closely reflect its behavior.

Before whitelist option

Cypress.Cookies.defaults({
  whitelist: 'session_id'
})

After preserve option

Cypress.Cookies.defaults({
  preserve: 'session_id'
})

`blacklistHosts` configuration renamed

The blacklistHosts configuration has been renamed to blockHosts to more closely reflect its behavior.

This should be updated in all places where Cypress configuration can be set including the via the configuration file (cypress.json by default), command line arguments, the pluginsFile, Cypress.config() or environment variables.

Before blacklistHosts configuration in cypress.json

{
  "blacklistHosts": "www.google-analytics.com"
}

After blockHosts configuration in cypress.json

{
  "blockHosts": "www.google-analytics.com"
}

Return type of `Cypress.Blob` changed

We updated the Blob library used behind Cypress.Blob from 1.3.3 to 2.0.2.

The return type of the Cypress.Blob methods arrayBufferToBlob, base64StringToBlob, binaryStringToBlob, and dataURLToBlob have changed from Promise<Blob> to Blob.

Before Cypress.Blob methods returned a Promise

Cypress.Blob.base64StringToBlob(this.logo, 'image/png')
.then((blob) => {
  // work with the returned blob
})

After Cypress.Blob methods return a Blob

const blob = Cypress.Blob.base64StringToBlob(this.logo, 'image/png')

// work with the returned blob

`cy.server()` `whitelist` option renamed

The cy.server() whitelist option has been renamed to ignore to more closely reflect its behavior.

Before whitelist option

cy.server({
  whitelist: (xhr) => {
    return xhr.method === 'GET' && /\.(jsx?|html|css)(\?.*)?$/.test(xhr.url)
  }
})

After ignore option

cy.server({
  ignore: (xhr) => {
    return xhr.method === 'GET' && /\.(jsx?|html|css)(\?.*)?$/.test(xhr.url)
  }
})

Cookies `sameSite` property

Values yielded by cy.setCookie(), cy.getCookie(), and cy.getCookies() will now contain the sameSite property if specified.

If you were using the experimentalGetCookiesSameSite configuration to get the sameSite property previously, this should be removed.

Before Cookies yielded before had no sameSite property.

cy.getCookie('token').then((cookie) => {
  // cy.getCookie() yields a cookie object
  // {
  //   domain: "localhost",
  //   expiry: 1593551644,
  //   httpOnly: false,
  //   name: "token",
  //   path: "/commands",
  //   secure: false,
  //   value: "123ABC"
  // }
})

After Cookies yielded now have sameSite property if specified.

cy.getCookie('token').then((cookie) => {
  // cy.getCookie() yields a cookie object
  // {
  //   domain: "localhost",
  //   expiry: 1593551644,
  //   httpOnly: false,
  //   name: "token",
  //   path: "/commands",
  //   sameSite: "strict",
  //   secure: false,
  //   value: "123ABC"
  // }
})

dirname / filename

The globals __dirname and __filename no longer include a leading slash.

Before __dirname / __filename

// cypress/integration/app_spec.js
it('include leading slash < 5.0', () => {
  expect(__dirname).to.equal('/cypress/integration')
  expect(__filename).to.equal('/cypress/integration/app_spec.js')
})

After __dirname / __filename

// cypress/integration/app_spec.js
it('do not include leading slash >= 5.0', () => {
  expect(__dirname).to.equal('cypress/integration')
  expect(__filename).to.equal('cypress/integration/app_spec.js')
})

Linux dependencies

Running Cypress on Linux now requires the libgbm dependency (on Debian-based systems, this is available as libgbm-dev). To install all required dependencies on Ubuntu/Debian, you can run the script below:

apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnotify-dev libgconf-2-4 libnss3 libxss1 libasound2 libxtst6 xauth xvfb

TypeScript esModuleInterop

Cypress no longer forces the esModuleInterop compiler option for TypeScript to be true for spec, support, and plugin files. We recommend setting it in your project’s tsconfig.json instead if you need to.

// tsconfig.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    /* ... other compiler options ... */
  }
}

TypeScript 3.4+ support

Cypress 5.0 raises minimum required TypeScript version from 2.9+ to 3.4+. You’ll need to have TypeScript 3.4+ installed within your project to have TypeScript support within Cypress.

Node.js 10+ support

Cypress comes bundled with it’s own Node.js version. However, installing the cypress npm package uses the Node.js version installed on your system.

Node.js 8 reached its end of life on Dec 31, 2019 and Node.js 11 reached its end of life on June 1, 2019. See Node’s release schedule. These Node.js versions will no longer be supported when installing Cypress. The minimum Node.js version supported to install Cypress is Node.js 10 or Node.js 12+.

Migrating to Cypress 4.0

This guide details the changes and how to change your code to migrate to Cypress 4.0. See the full changelog for 4.0.

Mocha upgrade

Mocha was upgraded from 2.5.3 to 7.0.1, which includes a number of breaking changes and new features outlined in their changelog. Some changes you might notice are described below.

Breaking Change: invoke `done` callback and return a promise

Starting with Mocha 3.0.0, invoking a done callback and returning a promise in a test results in an error.

This error originates from Mocha and is discussed at length here and here.

The reason is that using two different ways to signal that a test is finished is usually a mistake and there is always a way to only use one. There is a proposal to handle this situation without erroring that may be released in a future version of Mocha.

In the meantime, you can fix the error by choosing a single way to signal the end of your test’s execution.

Example #1

Before This test has a done callback and a promise

it('uses invokes done and returns promise', (done) => {
  return codeUnderTest.doSomethingThatReturnsPromise().then((result) => {
    // assertions here
    done()
  })
})

After You can remove the done callback and return the promise instead:

it('uses invokes done and returns promise', () => {
  return codeUnderTest.doSomethingThatReturnsPromise().then((result) => {
    // assertions here
  })
})

Example #2

Before Sometimes it might make more sense to use the done callback and not return a promise:

it('uses invokes done and returns promise', (done) => {
  eventEmitter.on('change', () => {
    // assertions
    done()
  })

  return eventEmitter.doSomethingThatEmitsChange()
})

After In this case, you don’t need to return the promise:

it('uses invokes done and returns promise', (done) => {
  eventEmitter.on('change', () => {
    // assertions
    done()
  })

  eventEmitter.doSomethingThatEmitsChange()
})

Example #3

Test functions using async/await automatically return a promise, so they need to be refactored to not use a done callback.

Before This will cause an overspecified error.

it('uses async/await', async (done) => {
  const eventEmitter = await getEventEmitter()
  eventEmitter.on('change', () => done())
  eventEmitter.doSomethingThatEmitsChange()
})

After Update to the test code below.

it('uses async/await', async () => {
  const eventEmitter = await getEventEmitter()
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    eventEmitter.on('change', () => resolve())
    eventEmitter.doSomethingThatEmitsChange()
  })
})

Tests require a title

Tests now require a title and will error when not provided one.

// Would show as pending in Cypress 3
// Will throw type error in Cypress 4:
it() // Test argument "title" should be a string. Received type "undefined"

Chai upgrade

Chai was upgraded from 3.5.0 to 4.2.0, which includes a number of breaking changes and new features outlined in Chai’s migration guide. Some changes you might notice are described below.

Breaking Change: assertions expecting numbers

Some assertions will now throw an error if the assertion’s target or arguments are not numbers, including within, above, least, below, most, increase and decrease.

// These will now throw errors:
expect(null).to.be.within(0, 1)
expect(null).to.be.above(10)
// This will not throw errors:
expect('string').to.have.a.length.of.at.least(3)

Breaking Change: `empty` assertions

The .empty assertion will now throw when it is passed non-string primitives and functions.

// These will now throw TypeErrors
expect(Symbol()).to.be.empty
expect(() => {}).to.be.empty

Breaking Change: non-existent properties

An error will throw when a non-existent property is read. If there are typos in property assertions, they will now appear as failures.

// Would pass in Cypress 3 but will fail correctly in 4
expect(true).to.be.ture

Breaking Change: `include` checks strict equality

include now always use strict equality unless the deep property is set.

Before include would always use deep equality

// Would pass in Cypress 3 but will fail correctly in 4
cy.wrap([{
  first: 'Jane',
  last: 'Lane'
}])
.should('include', {
  first: 'Jane',
  last: 'Lane'
})

After Need to specificy deep.include for deep equality

// Specifically check for deep.include to pass in Cypress 4
cy.wrap([{
  first: 'Jane',
  last: 'Lane'
}])
.should('deep.include', {
  first: 'Jane',
  last: 'Lane'
})

Sinon.JS upgrade

Sinon.JS was upgraded from 3.2.0 to 8.1.1, which includes a number of breaking changes and new features outlined in Sinon.JS’s migration guide. Some changes you might notice are described below.

Breaking Change: stub non-existent properties

An error will throw when trying to stub a non-existent property.

// Would pass in Cypress 3 but will fail in 4
cy.stub(obj, 'nonExistingProperty')

Breaking Change: `reset()` replaced by `resetHistory()`

For spies and stubs, the reset() method was replaced by resetHistory().

Before Spies and stubs using reset().

const spy = cy.spy()
const stub = cy.stub()

spy.reset()
stub.reset()

After Update spies and stubs should now use resetHistory().

const spy = cy.spy()
const stub = cy.stub()

spy.resetHistory()
stub.resetHistory()

Plugin Event `before:browser:launch`

Since we now support more advanced browser launch options, during before:browser:launch we no longer yield the second argument as an array of browser arguments and instead yield a launchOptions object with an args property.

You can see more examples of the new launchOptions in use in the Browser Launch API doc.

Before The second argument is no longer an array.

on('before:browser:launch', (browser, args) => {
  // will print a deprecation warning telling you
  // to change your code to the new signature
  args.push('--another-arg')

  return args
})

After Access the args property off launchOptions

on('before:browser:launch', (browser, launchOptions) => {
  launchOptions.args.push('--another-arg')

  return launchOptions
})

Electron options in `before:browser:launch`

Previously, you could pass options to the launched Electron BrowserWindow in before:browser:launch by modifying the launchOptions object.

Now, you must pass those options as launchOptions.preferences:

Before Passing BrowserWindow options on the launchOptions object is no longer supported.

on('before:browser:launch', (browser, args) => {
  args.darkTheme = true

  return args
})

After Pass BrowserWindow options on the options.preferences object instead.

on('before:browser:launch', (browser, launchOptions) => {
  launchOptions.preferences.darkTheme = true

  return launchOptions
})

Launching Chrome Canary with `--browser`

Before 4.0, cypress run --browser canary would run tests in Chrome Canary.

Now, you must pass --browser chrome:canary to select Chrome Canary.

See the docs for cypress run --browser for more information.

Before Passing canary will no longer find a browser

cypress run --browser canary

After Pass chrome:canary to launch Chrome Canary

cypress run --browser chrome:canary

Chromium-based browser `family`

We updated the Cypress browser objects of all Chromium-based browsers, including Electron, to have chromium set as their family field.

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('before:browser:launch', (browser = {}, launchOptions) => {
    if (browser.family === 'electron') {
      // would match Electron in 3.x
      // will match no browsers in 4.0.0
      return launchOptions
    }

    if (browser.family === 'chromium') {
      // would match no browsers in 3.x
      // will match any Chromium-based browser in 4.0.0
      // ie Chrome, Canary, Chromium, Electron, Edge (Chromium-based)
      return launchOptions
    }
  })
}

Example #1 (Finding Electron)

Before This will no longer find the Electron browser.

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('before:browser:launch', (browser = {}, args) => {
    if (browser.family === 'electron') {
      // run code for Electron browser in 3.x
      return args
    }
  })
}

After Use browser.name to check for Electron

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('before:browser:launch', (browser = {}, launchOptions) => {
    if (browser.name === 'electron') {
      // run code for Electron browser in 4.0.0
      return launchOptions
    }
  })
}

Example #2 (Finding Chromium-based browsers)

Before This will no longer find any browsers.

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('before:browser:launch', (browser = {}, args) => {
    if (browser.family === 'chrome') {
      // in 4.x, `family` was changed to 'chromium' for all Chromium-based browsers
      return args
    }
  })
}

After Use browser.name and browser.family to select non-Electron Chromium-based browsers

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('before:browser:launch', (browser = {}, launchOptions) => {
    if (browser.family === 'chromium' && browser.name !== 'electron') {
      // pass launchOptions to Chromium-based browsers in 4.0
      return launchOptions
    }
  })
}

`cy.writeFile()` yields `null`

cy.writeFile() now yields null instead of the contents written to the file. This change was made to more closely align with the behavior of Node.js fs.writeFile.

Before This assertion will no longer pass

cy.writeFile('path/to/message.txt', 'Hello World')
  .then((text) => {
    // Would pass in Cypress 3 but will fail in 4
    expect(text).to.equal('Hello World') // false
  })

After Instead read the contents of the file

cy.writeFile('path/to/message.txt', 'Hello World')
cy.readFile('path/to/message.txt').then((text) => {
  expect(text).to.equal('Hello World') // true
})

cy.contains() ignores invisible whitespaces

Browsers ignore leading, trailing, duplicate whitespaces. And Cypress now does that, too.

<p>hello
world</p>

cy.get('p').contains('hello world') // Fail in 3.x. Pass in 4.0.0.
cy.get('p').contains('hello\nworld') // Pass in 3.x. Fail in 4.0.0.

Node.js 8+ support

Cypress comes bundled with it’s own Node.js version. However, installing the cypress npm package uses the Node.js version installed on your system.

Node.js 4 reached its end of life on April 30, 2018 and Node.js 6 reached its end of life on April 30, 2019. See Node’s release schedule. These Node.js versions will no longer be supported when installing Cypress. The minimum Node.js version supported to install Cypress is Node.js 8.

CJSX is no longer supported

Cypress no longer supports CJSX (CoffeeScript + JSX), because the library used to transpile it is no longer maintained.

If you need CJSX support, you can use a pre-2.x version of the Browserify preprocessor.

npm install @cypress/[email protected]

// cypress/plugins/index.js
const browserify = require('@cypress/browserify-preprocessor')

module.exports = (on) => {
  on('file:preprocessor', browserify())
}

Migrating cy.route() to cy.intercept()

Match simple route

Match against url and path

cy.wait() object

Fixtures

Override route matchers

Migrating to Cypress 6.0

Non-existent element assertions

Assertions on non-existent elements

Opacity visibility

Assert visibility of opacity: 0 element

Perform actions on opacity: 0 element

cy.wait(alias) type

Restore old behavior

—disable-dev-shm-usage

Restore old behavior

Migrating to Cypress 5.0

Tests retries

Configure test retries via the CLI

Configure test retries in the configuration file

Configure test retries per test

Module API results

Cookies whitelist option renamed

blacklistHosts configuration renamed

Return type of Cypress.Blob changed

cy.server() whitelist option renamed

Cookies sameSite property

dirname / filename

Linux dependencies

TypeScript esModuleInterop

TypeScript 3.4+ support

Node.js 10+ support

Migrating to Cypress 4.0

Mocha upgrade

Breaking Change: invoke done callback and return a promise

Example #1

Example #2

Example #3

Tests require a title

Chai upgrade

Breaking Change: assertions expecting numbers

Breaking Change: empty assertions

Breaking Change: non-existent properties

Breaking Change: include checks strict equality

Sinon.JS upgrade

Breaking Change: stub non-existent properties

Breaking Change: reset() replaced by resetHistory()

Plugin Event before:browser:launch

Electron options in before:browser:launch

Launching Chrome Canary with --browser

Chromium-based browser family

Example #1 (Finding Electron)

Example #2 (Finding Chromium-based browsers)

cy.writeFile() yields null

cy.contains() ignores invisible whitespaces

Node.js 8+ support

CJSX is no longer supported

Migrating `cy.route()` to `cy.intercept()`

Match against `url` and `path`

`cy.wait()` object

Assert visibility of `opacity: 0` element

Perform actions on `opacity: 0` element

`cy.wait(alias)` type

`—disable-dev-shm-usage`

Cookies `whitelist` option renamed

`blacklistHosts` configuration renamed

Return type of `Cypress.Blob` changed

`cy.server()` `whitelist` option renamed

Cookies `sameSite` property

Breaking Change: invoke `done` callback and return a promise

Breaking Change: `empty` assertions

Breaking Change: `include` checks strict equality

Breaking Change: `reset()` replaced by `resetHistory()`

Plugin Event `before:browser:launch`

Electron options in `before:browser:launch`

Launching Chrome Canary with `--browser`

Chromium-based browser `family`

`cy.writeFile()` yields `null`