Cypress
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ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Selenium drives a browser like a confused tourist with a map. Cypress is a native speaker who lives in the browser — it runs JavaScript inside the same event loop as your app, so it can spy on network requests, stub responses, and wait for things intelligently. Still flaky sometimes though.
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