Cypress dotenv
Cypress plugin that enables compatability with dotenv.
What does this thing do?
It will load any environment variables
defined in your .env
file so you can access them via Cypress.env()
from within your tests as you would expect.
Any Cypress config options definedin your .env will also be applied and take precedence over what is in your cypress.json
file. See the Cypress docs for details on this
For example, if your .env
file has something like this:
CYPRESS_HELLO=hola
GOODBYE=adios
You can use Cypress.env('HELLO
) to access its value.
Install
npm install --save-dev cypress-dotenv
or
yarn add --dev cypress-dotenv
Configure
Since this is a plugin, you will need to modify your file cypress/plugins/index.js
to look something like this:
const dotenvPlugin = require('cypress-dotenv');
module.exports = (on, config) => {
config = dotenvPlugin(config)
return config
}
Options
This plugin takes three paramaters. The first parameter (which is mandatory) is the Cypress config object.
The second is an optional dotenv config object.
The third is an optional [all] boolean parameter, which is set to false by default. If set to true, it returns all available environmental variables, not limited to those prefixed with CYPRESS_.