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I used Cypress as an Xbox web scraper and I regret nothing

Anna on December 02, 2020

Like many people, I would like to get my hands on the new Xbox. And like everyone but the most diligent online shoppers, I have so far failed in my...
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Dan Silcox

This is awesome! I’ve been wanting to use cypress for something for ages and also how did I not know about stackery!! We were talking at work recently about being able to convert XML based draw.io diagrams into SAM templates and stackery is basically a more mature version of that functionality by the looks - truly awesome :)

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Anna

Yay! Give it a try and feel free to ask questions via the chat - one of us is on the other end (during PST biz hours, anyway) and will be happy to help if anything is confusing.

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

👋 ❤️👋 ❤️

Damn, I can see y'all have been hard at work over there. Stackery is looking 🔥

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Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Edited

... and so is the website 🤩

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Anna

Thanks, miss you friend!

And clearly I need more work if I have the time to create testing suite abominations 😂

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Ryan Coleman

I think this counts as R&D, right?

right?

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rolldy

Who doesn't love a shrugging white guys gif?

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Anna

I myself like a good shrugging classic movie gif

breakfast club

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Farrah

Great post!!!

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Adam Parker

I'm having a hard time finding the cypress.json file

Also the integration folder that is supposed to be in the cypress folder

It's probably operator error, but I'm lost.

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Anna

Hey, you need to run these two steps in the root of your repo:

  1. npm install cypress --save
  2. Once it's installed, run ./node_modules/.bin/cypress open.
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Anna

That will initialize cypress in that project, and create all of those files. Let me know if that still doesn't work for you!

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Nikos Kanakis

Can i use stackery without an AWS account?

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Anna

You can use it to architect a serverless app, but you can't deploy without an AWS account, as that's what we deploy into.

You can try playing around on a canvas or the free VS Code extension without an account:
app.stackery.io/editor/design?owne...