tape VS Cypress

Compare tape vs Cypress and see what are their differences.

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tape Cypress
17 174
5,755 46,129
0.0% 0.6%
8.6 9.8
29 days ago 1 day ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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tape

Posts with mentions or reviews of tape. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.
  • Having deps is a good thing, and disk space is infinite and free
    1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 18 May 2023
  • Express API Testing
    14 projects | /r/node | 7 Mar 2023
    Last but not least important are ava, uvu and tape; they are a really light and fast test runners.
  • Unit testing: What to use, and how?
    5 projects | /r/node | 13 Feb 2023
    A more minimalist approach is this tape module and the TAP protocol. https://www.npmjs.com/package/tape
  • Straight talk: Salary discussion thread
    2 projects | /r/Thailand | 18 Dec 2022
    OK will do. Do you have any tips on finding a suitable project? Ideally I was hoping to to contribute to a piece of software that I actually use/know/like/want to improve. Given that, and my area of expertise, I had shortlisted Signal Desktop, and Tape.
  • Find component by display name when the component is stateless functional, with Enzyme
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 2 Apr 2022
    Reactjs I have the following components: // Hello.jsexport default (React) => ({name}) => { return ( Hello {name ? name : 'Stranger'}! )}// App.jsimport createHello from './Hello'export default (React) => () => { const Hello = createHello(React) const helloProps = { name: 'Jane' } return ( )}// index.jsimport React from 'react'import { render } from 'react-dom'import createApp from './App'const App = createApp(React)render( , document.getElementById('app')) And I want to set up a test to see if the App component contains one Hello component. I tried the following, using Tape and Enzyme: import createApp from './App'import React from 'react'import test from 'tape'import { shallow } from 'enzyme'test('App component test', (assert) => { const App = createApp(React) const wrapper = shallow() assert.equal(wrapper.find('Hello').length === 1, true)}) But the result was that the length property of the find result was equal to 0, when I was expecting it to be equal to 1. So, how do I find my Hello component? Answer link : https://codehunter.cc/a/reactjs/find-component-by-display-name-when-the-component-is-stateless-functional-with-enzyme
  • Nobody at Facebook has worked on Jest for years
    3 projects | /r/javascript | 2 Feb 2022
  • Tools for testing Functional Web Apps
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Dec 2021
    For us at Begin and Architect, tape has been in use for several years. tape has a stable and straightforward API, routine maintenance updates, and outputs TAP, making it really versatile. While TAP is legible, it's not the most human-readable format. Fortunately, several TAP reporters can help display results for developers. Until recently, Begin's TAP reporter of choice was tap-spec. Sadly tap-spec wasn't kept up to date and npm began reporting vulnerabilities.
  • Chaijs.com just let their domain expire
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2021
    I really enjoy Ava [1] or anything assert-tape-like [2]. "uvu" [3] is getting a lot of love lately, but it's very feature limited and much of it's touted advantages are at the detriment to feature set.

    [1] https://github.com/avajs/ava

    [2] https://github.com/substack/tape

    [3] https://github.com/lukeed/uvu

    Jest is great for front-end (or full stack integration) testing, but I feel it's specialized for that use-case and doesn't always play nice with backend/middle-tier testing needs.

  • Advanced Roadmap for React.js developers
    20 projects | dev.to | 25 Nov 2021
    -Jest -React testing library -Enzyme -Sinon -Mocha -Chai -AVA -Tape
  • The React roadmap for beginners you never knew you needed.
    42 projects | dev.to | 23 Nov 2021
    Tape

Cypress

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cypress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tape and Cypress you can also consider the following projects:

jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing.

Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

tap - Test Anything Protocol tools for node

Detox - Gray box end-to-end testing and automation framework for mobile apps

ava - Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence 🚀

mocha - ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser

kafka-test-helper - Utility library that simplify testing of Node.js components that interacts with Kafka broker.

hyperapp - 1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications

supertest - 🕷 Super-agent driven library for testing node.js HTTP servers using a fluent API. Maintained for @forwardemail, @ladjs, @spamscanner, @breejs, @cabinjs, and @lassjs.

AVA

Sentry - Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring