Outdated legacy cypress-audit plugin entry

[MikeMcC399]

Description

• Follows on from issue FAQ: Performance testing outdated links for Lighthouse #6026

Issue

The Plugins list, in the section Development Tools, contains an entry for the plugin:

cypress-audit

The npm package's latest version is [email protected] and was published 3 years ago, with instructions for use on legacy Cypress. This version is not deprecated in the npm registry.

The linked documentation site https://mfrachet.github.io/cypress-audit/ refers to new plugins:

• @cypress-audit/lighthouse
• @cypress-audit/pa11y

with the text:

These libraries were previously deployed under the cypress-audit package and have been split because of license issues between underlying tools.

Suggestion

In the Plugins list:

1. cypress-audit should be deprecated, since it runs only on legacy Cypress.
2. Add new entries for the following, which are sourced from the same repo https://github.com/mfrachet/cypress-audit:
   • @cypress-audit/lighthouse
   • @cypress-audit/pa11y

[jennifer-shehane]

Sounds like a good followup

[MikeMcC399]

• In PR Remove deprecated plugins #5948, the following criteria were applied:

Remove all plugins which meet the following criteria for being outdated.

Outdated plugins:

are marked as "Deprecated" and
are based on repos which have been archived or which are otherwise declared as unsupported or
support only legacy versions of Cypress v9 or lower or
have not been updated since the release of Cypress v10 in June 2022

This is a grey area, as cypress-audit was not previously deprecated. It may be overall more consistent to remove the plugin, rather than just deprecate it.

[MikeMcC399]

The CI workflow runs tests with Cypress ^10.2.0 (10.11.0). There is no testing against the current version of Cypress 14.x.

I suggest to get feedback from the owner @mfrachet about any plans to update the plugin, then he might also update the entries in the Plugins list accordingly:

npm owner ls cypress-audit
npm owner ls @cypress-audit/lighthouse
npm owner ls @cypress-audit/pa11y

skahrz <[email protected]>

Also there was the announcement Sunsetting Create React App which relates to the use of CRA in the examples.

[MikeMcC399]

• There was no response from the request Outdated plugin entry https://docs.cypress.io/app/plugins/plugins-list mfrachet/cypress-audit#241 in the related repo