Cypress released their much-awaited version 10.0 last month. It came with new features such as component testing and a new cypress app with beautiful UI and new features which will improve the developer experience.
Along with the new features and bugfixes, this version also came with a few breaking changes. In this blog, we will cover some of those major changes.
Cypress.config.js to be a default config file
In the earlier versions, when we opened
Cypress for the first time in a project,
it used to create a cypress.json configuration file.
This file was used to store any configuration values
that we supplied.
With Cypress version 10.0 onwards, using ‘cypress.json’ will not be supported. It will be replaced with a ‘cypress.config.js’ file.
Also, an error will be thrown if both ‘cypress.json’ and ‘cypress.config.js’ files are found.
Cypress configuration file is now mandatory
A cypress configuration file is now required
and if we pass flag --config-file=false
it will throw an error.
Removed integrationFolder and componentFolder
From version 10.0 onwards integrationFolder,
componentFolder, testFiles were removed
and
replaced by specPattern.
These configuration options are now
specific to e2e
or component testing.
Removed run all specs option
The ability to
Run all specs
and Run filtered specs
have been removed while running the cypress specs in a GUI,
using cypress open.
To know more about the changes in this version check out the link.
