Cypress ESLint Plugin

An ESLint plugin for your Cypress tests.

Note: If you installed ESLint globally then you must also install eslint-plugin-cypress globally.

Installation

Prerequisites: ESLint v7 or v8. ESLint v9 is not supported yet.

npm install eslint-plugin-cypress --save-dev

or

yarn add eslint-plugin-cypress --dev

Usage

Add an .eslintrc.json file to your cypress directory with the following:

{
  "plugins": [
    "cypress"
  ]
}

You can add rules:

{
  "rules": {
    "cypress/no-assigning-return-values": "error",
    "cypress/no-unnecessary-waiting": "error",
    "cypress/assertion-before-screenshot": "warn",
    "cypress/no-force": "warn",
    "cypress/no-async-tests": "error",
    "cypress/no-async-before": "error",
    "cypress/no-pause": "error"
  }
}

You can allow certain globals provided by Cypress:

{
  "env": {
    "cypress/globals": true
  }
}

Recommended configuration

Use the recommended configuration and you can forego configuring plugins, rules, and env individually. See below for which rules are included.

{
  "extends": [
    "plugin:cypress/recommended"
  ]
}

Disable rules

You can disable specific rules per file, for a portion of a file, or for a single line.

Disable the cypress/no-unnecessary-waiting rule for the entire file by placing this at the start of the file:

/* eslint-disable cypress/no-unnecessary-waiting */

Disable the cypress/no-unnecessary-waiting rule for only a portion of the file:

it('waits for a second', () => {
  ...
  /* eslint-disable cypress/no-unnecessary-waiting */
  cy.wait(1000)
  /* eslint-enable cypress/no-unnecessary-waiting */
  ...
})

Disable the cypress/no-unnecessary-waiting rule for a specific line:

it('waits for a second', () => {
  ...
  cy.wait(1000) // eslint-disable-line cypress/no-unnecessary-waiting
  ...
})

You can also disable a rule for the next line:

it('waits for a second', () => {
  ...
  // eslint-disable-next-line cypress/no-unnecessary-waiting
  cy.wait(1000)
  ...
})

For more, see the ESLint rules documentation.

Rules

These rules enforce some of the best practices recommended for using Cypress.

Rules with a check mark (✅) are enabled by default while using the plugin:cypress/recommended config.

| | Rule ID | Description | | :-- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------- | | ✅ | no-assigning-return-values | Prevent assigning return values of cy calls | | ✅ | no-unnecessary-waiting | Prevent waiting for arbitrary time periods | | ✅ | no-async-tests | Prevent using async/await in Cypress test case | | ✅ | unsafe-to-chain-command | Prevent chaining from unsafe to chain commands | | | no-force | Disallow using force: true with action commands | | | assertion-before-screenshot | Ensure screenshots are preceded by an assertion | | | require-data-selectors | Only allow data-* attribute selectors (require-data-selectors) | | | no-pause | Disallow cy.pause() parent command |

Mocha and Chai

Cypress is built on top of Mocha and Chai. See the following sections for information on using ESLint plugins eslint-plugin-mocha and eslint-plugin-chai-friendly together with eslint-plugin-cypress.

Mocha .only and .skip

During test spec development, Mocha exclusive tests .only or Mocha inclusive tests .skip may be used to control which tests are executed, as described in the Cypress documentation Excluding and Including Tests. To apply corresponding rules, you can install and use eslint-plugin-mocha. The rule mocha/no-exclusive-tests detects the use of .only and the mocha/no-skipped-tests rule detects the use of .skip:

npm install --save-dev eslint-plugin-mocha

In your .eslintrc.json:

{
  "plugins": [
    "cypress",
    "mocha"
  ],
  "rules": {
    "mocha/no-exclusive-tests": "warn",
    "mocha/no-skipped-tests": "warn"
  }
}

Or you can simply use the cypress/recommended and mocha/recommended configurations together, for example:

{
  "extends": [
    "plugin:cypress/recommended",
    "plugin:mocha/recommended"
  ]
}

Chai and no-unused-expressions

Using an assertion such as expect(value).to.be.true can fail the ESLint rule no-unused-expressions even though it's not an error in this case. To fix this, you can install and use eslint-plugin-chai-friendly.

npm install --save-dev eslint-plugin-chai-friendly

In your .eslintrc.json:

{
  "plugins": [
    "cypress",
    "chai-friendly"
  ],
  "rules": {
    "no-unused-expressions": 0,
    "chai-friendly/no-unused-expressions": 2
  }
}

Or you can simply add its recommended config:

{
  "extends": ["plugin:chai-friendly/recommended"]
}

Contributing

Please see our Contributing Guideline which explains how to contribute rules or other fixes and features to the repo.