Global Chai Declarations

[kpowerz]

Please excuse me for I've only been using cypress for a month now, but I was curious as to why cypress declares the expect and assert globally?

Isn't there a way where the expect and assert can be declared on a 'cypress' level'? As in only within the cypress folder?

Obviously, this is something I can resolve myself but I was curious as to why this is done by default.

[bahmutov]

Well, it would be nice to limit the number of global variables, agree. But historically every spec would need to import `cypress` and `expect` and whatever else. At the start we have decided to make it easier to do testing by having everything ready to go. Maybe with time we could transition to being local and explicit like const {it, describe, expect, cy} = require('cypress') describe('my tests', () => { it('...', () => { expect(1).to.equal(1) }) })

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[kpowerz]

Awesome, that is great to hear. I've been using cypress full time at my new job and have been really enjoying it. Excited to see its continuous evolution!

Thanks for the reply.