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cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app — explained in plain English

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tl;dr

A realistic practice payment application built by the Cypress team to show all four Cypress testing approaches in one project: browser end-to-end tests, direct API tests, component tests, and code coverage. Clone and run with a single Yarn command, the database resets to sample data on every restart.

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    App features
      User login
      Send money
      Transaction history
    Test types
      Browser E2E
      Direct API tests
      Component tests
    Test setup
      Code coverage
      Sample data reset
      Known start state
    Auth options
      Local accounts
      Auth0 and Okta
      Amazon Cognito

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Study all four Cypress testing patterns in one realistic codebase: click-through browser tests, direct API tests, isolated component tests, and code coverage reports.

VIBE 2

Run the full app locally with one Yarn command and a database that resets to known sample data on each restart, so every test starts from a predictable state.

VIBE 3

Practice testing different authentication flows by switching between the built-in login, Auth0, Okta, or Amazon Cognito startup commands.

VIBE 4

Use the project as a reference when building your own Cypress test suite, copying patterns for login flows, transaction lists, and database seeding.

what's the stack?

TypeScriptReactExpressCypress

how it stacks up fr

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Stars5,8915,8905,893
LanguageTypeScriptTypeScriptTypeScript
Setup difficultyeasyeasyeasy
Complexity3/52/52/5
Audiencedevelopergeneraldeveloper

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 30min
License not specified in the explanation.

in plain english

This is a practice payment application built by the team behind Cypress, a popular tool for automated browser testing. The app itself mimics the kind of thing you might see in a real product: users can log in, send money to each other, view transaction history, and manage a basic account. It is not meant to handle real payments and is not intended for production use. Its purpose is to give developers a realistic codebase to learn and experiment with testing. The reason the app exists is to show how Cypress tests work in a real scenario, not a toy example. Developers can open the test suite and see how to write tests that click through the browser, how to test API responses directly, how to test individual UI components in isolation, and how to track which lines of code the tests actually exercise. All four of those approaches are demonstrated in the same project. The app runs locally on your machine. It uses a React frontend, an Express backend, and a local JSON file as its database instead of a real database server. That means you can clone the repository, install dependencies with Yarn, and start everything with a single command. The database refills itself with sample data each time you restart the app, so tests always start from a known state. Several login options are included, ranging from a built-in local account system to integrations with third-party identity providers like Auth0, Okta, and Amazon Cognito. Each variation has its own startup command and a linked guide so you can practice testing different authentication flows. The project is maintained by Cypress and is used in their official documentation and tutorials as the reference example for real-world testing patterns.

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Using the cypress-realworld-app as a reference, write a Cypress end-to-end test that logs in a user, sends money to another user, and verifies the transaction appears in both users' history.
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Based on the API test patterns in cypress-realworld-app, write a Cypress test that calls the /transactions endpoint directly and asserts the response status and payload shape without going through the browser.
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Using the component test setup from cypress-realworld-app, write a component test for a transaction card that mounts with sample data and checks that the amount and recipient name render correctly.
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Following the cypress-realworld-app seeding pattern, set up a beforeEach hook in my own project that resets the test database and seeds it with three specific users before each test runs.

Frequently asked questions

what is cypress-realworld-app fr?

A realistic practice payment application built by the Cypress team to show all four Cypress testing approaches in one project: browser end-to-end tests, direct API tests, component tests, and code coverage. Clone and run with a single Yarn command, the database resets to sample data on every restart.

What language is cypress-realworld-app written in?

Mainly TypeScript. The stack also includes TypeScript, React, Express.

What license does cypress-realworld-app use?

License not specified in the explanation.

How hard is cypress-realworld-app to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is cypress-realworld-app for?

Mainly developer.

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