cypress-workshop-socketio-chat

Testing Socketio chat app using Cypres.io

Install

Using Node v12+ install dependencies

$ npm install

Run chat server

$ npm start

Open localhost:8080

Writing tests

1. Install Cypress
2. Scaffold example tests
3. Add Prettier, see How to configure Prettier and VSCode
4. Test opening the chat and posting a message
5. Add CI
   1. Optional: add Cypress Dashboard recording
6. Test randomly generated user name
7. Use API inside the app to simulate the second user
8. Implement 2nd Socketio connection from the plugins file to the server
   1. check the 2nd user connects
   2. check the 2nd user sends a message
   3. check we can send the message to the 2nd user
   4. check the 2nd user leaves and we are notified
9. advanced run two Cypress tests at the same time
10. advanced sync two Cypress runners using checkpoints and intermediate Socketio server

Read

• Test a Socket.io Chat App using Cypress
• Run Two Cypress Test Runners At The Same Time

Attribution

Copied from bahmutov/cypress-socketio-chat which itself got the chat server from dkhd/node-group-chat.

Author

Author: Gleb Bahmutov <[email protected]> © 2021

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License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

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