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Will instantly fail if you need to nav to a different domain at any point in your test .

Say you have happysite.com , but your using parentsite.com to authenticate, Cypress will explode instantly. If your test will ever leave your first domain, same thing.

Don't take shortcuts, use Puppeteer or it's successor Playwright

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Can’t say we’ve experienced this at all. Part of our test involves navigating to a third party site (gocardless) to set up a direct debit. The test works fantastically well and is a pretty crucial part of our flow, so we’ve come to rely on it.

Maybe it's gotten fixed in the last year ?

Thank you , I'll keep that in mind the next time I build a front end testing stack

I agree with the sentiment but just want to mention Playwright isn't the "successor" of Puppeteer and both have pros and cons. Puppeteer is very much still in active development.

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