Uninstalling Cypress

[mcivora]

I'm looking to uninstall Cypress and make a clean install.

I thought I'd done this but can still see a Cypress folder with e2e, Fixtures and Support folders below it.

How do I uninstall properly?

[paulcastro2014]

https://docs.npmjs.com/uninstalling-packages-and-dependencies

[MikeMcC399]

That only covers uninstalling the npm module cypress. It does not remove "Cypress folder with e2e, Fixtures and Support" that the original question referred to.

[MikeMcC399]

@mcivora

This is an old question, so I guess you will have figured it out by now.

Just for the record, uninstalling Cypress (with npm uninstall cypress, pnpm remove cypress, yarn remove cypress) does not delete the files and folders it may have created going through the cypress open sequence and you would need to remove these manually in order to do a clean install.

The names of the files and folders depends on whether you are using JavaScript or TypeScript and whether Cypress has been set up for E2E testing, Component Testing or both. For example, JavaScript / E2E would create:

/cypress.config.js
/cypress/fixtures/example.json
/cypress/support/commands.js
/cypress/support/e2e.js

Cypress also caches data, so to completely remove Cypress you would also need to remove this as well. That is not usually necessary if you just want to run a clean install.