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Generally during development the main reason that I leave cypress and manually open a browser tab is in order to use the vue devtools, which I've been largely unsuccessful in using within a cypress-controlled browser. Is it possible to use the vue devtools within cypress?

Okay the best tool I've found for this is to use the npm package version of the devtools: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vue/devtools