Cypress
Ranked 12 of 12 browser automation tools by recommenders
People recommend Cypress as a testing setup that helps prevent bugs, often paired with TypeScript and Jest. Critics raise no clear recurring caveat.
People recommend Cypress as a testing setup that helps prevent bugs, often paired with TypeScript and Jest. Critics raise no clear recurring caveat.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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Other browser automation tools people recommend
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| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwright | 137 | 28 | 83% | 12 | 3 mo3 owners | Approved |
| Playwright CLI | 19 | 1 | 95% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Selenium | 15 | 5 | 75% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Puppeteer | 14 | 16 | 47% | 10 | — | — |
| CypressThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the two most impactful things for preventing bugs were Typescript and Cypress”
“not quite ad hoc enough for smaller fixes”
“it's not quite ad hoc enough for smaller fixes which is where the bottleneck still comes in for us”
“required a lot of beefy instances”
“an E2E testing framework that functioned a lot like Cypress”
“a pretty sweet Cypress & Jest testing setup”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.