cypress-book-todomvc

Repo bahmutov/cypress-book-todomvc, read the blog post Cypress Book. Uses cypress-book module to copy the screenshots.

Initial screen

This application starts with an input field.

Initial view

cy.visit('/')
cy.get('input').should('be.visible')
cy.screenshot('initial')

Main feature

User can enter several todos, and they are added to the list

cy.visit('/')
cy.log('**entering 3 todos 📝**')
cy.get('.new-todo')
  .type('write in Markdown ⌨️{enter}')
  .type('code in JavaScript 💻{enter}')
  .type('test in Cypress 😻{enter}')
cy.log('**assertion ✅**')
cy.get('.todo-list li').should('have.length', 3)
cy.screenshot('todos')

Completing tasks

Once there are several todo items, the user can mark some items "done" and then clear them using a button.

You can see just the completed items using the filters below the list

The "Clear completed" button is at the bottom and becomes visible only if there are completed items.

Hover over the button and click on it

Only a single active todo remains

cy.visit('/')
cy.get('.new-todo')
  .type('write in Markdown{enter}')
  .type('code in JavaScript{enter}')
  .type('test in Cypress{enter}')
cy.get('.todo-list li').should('have.length', 3)

cy.contains('.view', 'code in JavaScript').find('.toggle').click()
cy.contains('.view', 'test in Cypress').find('.toggle').click()
cy.get('.todo-list li.completed').should('have.length', 2)
cy.screenshot('completed-todos')

cy.contains('.filters li', 'Completed').click()
cy.get('.todo-list li').should('have.length', 2)
cy.screenshot('just-completed-todos')

cy.contains('.filters li', 'All').click()
cy.get('footer.footer').screenshot('footer')
cy.contains('Clear completed')
  .should('be.visible')
  .then(($el) => {
    $el.css({
      textDecoration: 'underline',
      border: '1px solid pink',
      borderRadius: '2px',
    })
  })
cy.get('footer.footer').screenshot('clear-completed')

// clear completed items and take a screenshot
// of the single active todo
cy.contains('Clear completed').click()
cy.get('.todo-list li').should('have.length', 1)
cy.screenshot('remaining-todo')

Explanation

This README file contains tests Cypress understands and runs by using cypress-fiddle file preprocessor. Start the application and Cypress using

npm install
npm run dev

And click on the README.md file

The tests should run. These tests are above in this file, hiding inside an invisible HTML element and a comment:

<details style="display:none">
<!-- fiddle Initial -->
... Cypress test ...
<!-- fiddle-end -->
</details>

This is similar to what I have done in Self-testing JAM pages

The test usually includes several .screenshot commands, these images are moved into images folder using code in the cypress/plugins/index.js file.

You can also take a screenshot with the test runner to show how Cypress looks during the test.

TodoMVC test

cy.visit('/')
cy.log('**entering 2 todos 📝**')
cy.get('.new-todo').type('I ❤️ tests{enter}').type('and 💕 tests{enter}')
cy.log('**assertion ✅**')
cy.get('.todo-list li').should('have.length', 2)
cy.screenshot('demo-test', { capture: 'runner', log: false })

For more advanced use case where you might want to generate video clips from tests, see cypress-movie

on CI

This project is built from repo bahmutov/cypress-book-todomvc and tested using GitHub Actions. If there are any changed screenshots, they are automatically committed and pushed to GH, see .github/workflows/main.yml.

Note: screenshots are only overwritten if they are more than 0.1% different from the existing screenshots in file byte size.

Then this README is converted into a static site using VuePress and deployed to the GitHub Pages at https://glebbahmutov.com/cypress-book-todomvc/.

Debugging

To see verbose messages from this project run with the environment variable

DEBUG=cypress-book

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