Testing · Senior · Question 54 of 75

Why can't Cypress commands be mixed with `async/await`?

✓Correct answer: Commands are enqueued and executed later by Cypress, they return chainables, not promises
2Cypress doesn't support ES2017
3Because Cypress runs in Node.js

Explanation

Values are obtained with .then(), aliases (.as()) or assertions with .should().

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