snapshot vs cypress-plugin-snapshots

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snapshot		cypress-plugin-snapshots
	Project
1	Mentions	3
116	Stars	488
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
-	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

snapshot

Posts with mentions or reviews of snapshot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-07.

Understanding and implementing Cypress snapshot testing
7 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021

The @cypress/snapshot module introduces the Cypress snapshot() command which serializes the selected UI component.

cypress-plugin-snapshots

Posts with mentions or reviews of cypress-plugin-snapshots. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-24.

Visual Regression Testing with Cypress 10
3 projects | dev.to | 24 Jun 2022

One plugin which Cypress suggests is the cypress-plugin-snapshots, but if you wander into Cypress’ plugin “market” you can see that there are more. After checking a few, I have decided to go with the cypress-image-diff-js plugin because it’s free, has a relatively simple api, seems to have a good update activity and a fair amount of GitHub stars.
E2E Testing a Video Game
3 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2022

I had a lot of fun putting this together and was able to do so quickly with the help of Yannick's boilerplate, Kenny's Assets, Phaser, Cypress and cypress-plugin-snapshots.
Understanding and implementing Cypress snapshot testing
7 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021

The cypress-plugin-snapshots module has already been mentioned earlier, but I'll mention it again as it provides image snapshot functionality as well. The toMatchImageSnapshot() command can take a screenshot of the entire web document or of a specific element.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing snapshot and cypress-plugin-snapshots you can also consider the following projects:

cypress-image-diff - Visual regression test with cypress

cypress-image-snapshot - Catch visual regressions in Cypress

percy-cypress - Visual testing with Cypress and Percy

cypress-cucumber-boilerplate - Cypress.IO Project using Javascript and Cucumber to start automating E2E tests just cloning it and installing dependencies.

cypress-mochawesome-reporter - Zero config Mochawesome reporter for Cypress with screenshots and videos

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome

phaser-project-template - 🕹️ Phaser 3 - Starter Template with TypeScript and webpack.

knapsack-pro-cypress - Knapsack Pro for Cypress.io test runner in JavaScript. It splits tests in dynamic way across parallel CI nodes to get faster CI build time.

cypress-visual-regression - Module for adding visual regression testing to Cypress