Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The plugin cypress-magic-backend lets you define multiple explicit API routes to intercept, see github.com/bahmutov/cypress-magic-backend?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration In this video, I show how to better target "GET and POST calls to /todos" and "DELETE calls to /todos/:id" APIs
The plugin cypress-magic-backend lets you define multiple explicit API routes to intercept, see github.com/bahmutov/cypress-magic-backend?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration In this video, I show how to better target "GET and POST calls to /todos" and "DELETE calls to /todos/:id" APIs










![Escape Regular Expression Text When Using cy.contains Command
This video shows how to escape special characters like $, [], and ^ when creating regular expressions to use with cy.contains command. You can escape the characters yourself or use the Lodash method Cypress._.escapeRegExp bundled with Cypress to do it for you
const suffix = $/day
const regex = new RegExp(Cypress._.escapeRegExp(suffix))
cy.contains(regex).should(have.id, rate)
Find the full recipe at https://glebbahmutov.com/cypress-examples Escape Regular Expression Text When Using cy.contains Command](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hMzqiSUVGwA/mqdefault.jpg)