Cypress is a next-generation front-end testing tool built for the modern web. It enables faster, easier, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Developers can write end-to-end tests, integration tests, and unit tests with an intuitive API. Cypress offers features like time travel debugging, automatic waiting, and real-time reloads, significantly improving the development workflow and ensuring high-quality web applications. Its architecture minimizes flakiness and provides consistent test results.
Cypress package releases began in May 2015. Frequency varied, with periods of no releases, followed by bursts. Release volume increased steadily from 2017 and peaked in 2022, before maintaining a smaller variance over 2023 and 2024.. September 2025 has had no releases to date.
Cypress npm package downloads show a generally upward trend from March 2024 to July 2025, peaking at over 29 million. August 2025 saw a dip to 26 million. September 2025 data is incomplete, showing no downloads yet.
