Add Cypress uninstall instructions

[MikeMcC399]

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What would you like?

Add uninstall instructions for Cypress.

Uninstall of the Cypress npm package itself is according to the package manager used to install:

• npm uninstall cypress
• yarn remove cypress
• pnpm remove cypress

Full removal requires also deletion of Cypress cached binary and app data.

Why is this needed?

There are no instructions about how to uninstall Cypress.

Cypress stores additional binary and data in system-dependent locations:

In addition to the cypress npm package, installing Cypress also installs a Cypress binary version into a binary cache location.

• macOS: ~/Library/Caches/Cypress
• Linux: ~/.cache/Cypress
• Windows: $LOCALAPPDATA/Cypress/Cache (POSIX-syntax) / %LOCALAPPDATA%\Cypress\Cache (Windows-syntax)

When Cypress is run, it saves App Data

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Cypress ?
• Linux: ~/.config/Cypress
• Windows: $APPDATA/Cypress (POSIX-syntax) / %APPDATA%\Cypress (Windows-syntax)

Other

• Related to Unknown origin of Cypress, no uninstaller, not a node user cypress#30384