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Frontend Development Projects with Vue.js 3 - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234991
Pages 628 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (4):
Maya Shavin Maya Shavin
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Raymond Camden Raymond Camden
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Clifford Gurney Clifford Gurney
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Hugo Di Francesco Hugo Di Francesco
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction and Crash Course
2. Chapter 1: Starting Your First Vue Project 3. Chapter 2: Working with Data 4. Chapter 3: Vite and Vue Devtools 5. Part 2: Building Your First Vue App
6. Chapter 4: Nesting Components (Modularity) 7. Chapter 5: The Composition API 8. Chapter 6: Global Component Composition 9. Chapter 7: Routing 10. Chapter 8: Animations and Transitions 11. Part 3: Global State Management
12. Chapter 9: The State of Vue State Management 13. Chapter 10: State Management with Pinia 14. Part 4: Testing and Application Deployment
15. Chapter 11: Unit Testing 16. Chapter 12: End-to-End Testing 17. Chapter 13: Deploying Your Code to the Web 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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