Cypress
Modern end-to-end testing framework built for web applications with excellent developer experience.
Testing npm MIT
Used in agent projects
51
0.4% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in testing
#18 of 40
by use in those projects
Downloads
6M
npm, last 7 days, cypress
GitHub stars
51K
last push Oct 10, 2026
How Cypress is used
Cypress is a dependency in 51 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.4%), #18 of 40 in testing. The most used alternative there is Vitest. Projects that use it most often also use Testing Library (54.9%), Jest (51.0%), ESLint (80.4%).
Often used with Cypress
| Testing Library | 54.9% of Cypress projects · 7.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| Jest | 51.0% of Cypress projects · 9.2× more than average |
| ESLint | 80.4% of Cypress projects · 2.1× more than average |
| jsdom | 35.3% of Cypress projects · 6.6× more than average |
| Vitest | 41.2% of Cypress projects · 3.4× more than average |
| Prettier | 49.0% of Cypress projects · 2.8× more than average |
| TypeScript | 84.3% of Cypress projects · 1.5× more than average |
| React Hook Form | 31.4% of Cypress projects · 3.9× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 1.0% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| Claude Code | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Cypress as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install cypress |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (29), Next.js (18), Python (2), Go (1) |
| Example projects | ngxtension/ngxtension-platform, near/wallet-selector, Miladxsar23/smartstepper, commercetools/merchant-center-application-kit, juanfran/tapiz |
Alternatives to Cypress
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitest npm Next-generation testing framework powered by Vite with native ESM. |
1,549 (12.2%) | 123M | 17.2K | MIT |
| Playwright (JavaScript) npm Cross-browser automation library for end-to-end testing. |
1,117 (8.8%) | 74.2M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |
| Testing Library npm Testing utilities for React encouraging testing user behavior. |
915 (7.2%) | 68.7M | 19.7K | MIT |
| Jest npm Delightful JavaScript testing framework with minimal configuration. |
702 (5.5%) | 46.3M | 45.6K | MIT |
| jsdom npm JavaScript implementation of web standards for testing DOM interactions. |
681 (5.4%) | 112M | 21.7K | MIT |
| pytest pypi Simple, powerful Python testing framework with fixtures and plugins. |
330 (2.6%) | 196M | 14.6K | — |
| Chai npm BDD/TDD assertion library for Node.js and browsers with expressive syntax. |
305 (2.4%) | 14M | 8,265 | MIT |
| Mocha npm Feature-rich JavaScript test framework for Node.js and browsers. |
281 (2.2%) | 12.6M | 22.9K | MIT |