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How would you set up Cypress in an Angular project to write your first end to end test?

Intermediate

Answer

You install Cypress as a development dependency, run its setup command to generate a starter configuration, then write test files describing the user flows you want to verify, such as visiting a page and checking that specific content appears correctly.
npm install cypress --save-dev
npx cypress open

// cypress/e2e/home.cy.ts
describe('Home Page', () => {
  it('displays the welcome message', () => {
    cy.visit('/');
    cy.contains('Welcome').should('be.visible');
  });
});
Real-world example A team adds their first Cypress test to confirm their homepage loads correctly and displays the expected welcome message, catching any future regression where that critical first impression might break.

Common follow-ups: What is the difference between running Cypress tests interactively versus running them headlessly in a CI pipeline?;How do you handle waiting for an asynchronous action, like an API call, to finish during a Cypress test?