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By default, Cypress will support a single configuration based on the optional file cypress.json<\/code> as described in their documentation here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst this works fine for most, it would be great if we could have access to a cypress.dev.json<\/code> for local development, or even better, a whole host of configuration files for use against a multi-tenant environment – for example cypress.clientA.json<\/code>, cypress.clientB.json<\/code> etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst Cypress accepts a different config file during startup with the --config-file<\/code> flag, it would be better if we could just pass the environment name through instead of the full file name and\/or location, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uses for environmental variables<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I personally use these environmental files to store things like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Base URL: Each client has its own SIT\/UAT environments with different URLs<\/li>
  • Default username and password for test environments.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Creating the different config files<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    We can create a root level folder named “Config”. Under here we can create as many files as we need to cover, for example I have config.ClientA.json<\/code> which contains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    {\n  \"baseUrl\": \"http:\/\/clientA.internalserver.co.uk\/\",\n  \"env\": {\n    \"someVariable\": \"Foo\"\n  }\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
     And config.ClientB.json<\/code> which contains: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
    {\n  \"baseUrl\": \"http:\/\/clientB.internalserver.co.uk\/\",\n  \"env\": {\n    \"someVariable\": \"Bar\"\n  }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    Editing the plugin file<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    First we need to import “path” and “fs-extra” packages by adding the following at the top of the index.js<\/code> file within the \/Plugins<\/code> folder (if it doesn’t already exist!). These will allow the file to be located and subsequently read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    const path = require(\"path\");\nconst fs = require(\"fs-extra\");<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    Next we need the method which will take in a client name\/environmental variable, locate the appropriate config file (being  \/config\/config.name<\/strong>.json), and then reading that file back to the calling method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    function getConfigurationFileByEnvName(env) {\n  const fileLocation = path.resolve(\"cypress\/config\", `config.${env}.json`);\n  return fs.readJson(fileLocation);\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    and finally we need the index.js file to export this file. This will also have a fallback in place if one is not defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    module.exports = (on, config) => {  \n  const envFile = config.env.configFile || \"local\";\n  return getConfigurationFileByEnvName(envFile);\n};<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    The eagle eyed may realise that I am using config.env.configFile<\/code> here which will mean passing an environmental flag in the command line rather than making direct use of the --config<\/code> flag. This is personal preference, as I aim to expand on the env<\/code> flags later so this will look cleaner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    Consuming the configuration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    Now, when running the usual open command, we can make use of the --env<\/code> flag to pass it the environmental variable. We do so with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    .\/node_modules\/.bin\/cypress open --env configFile=clientA<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
    It should now launch the test runner with your different files environmental variables available via Cypress.env('key')<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    By default, Cypress will support a single configuration based on the optional file cypress.json as described in their documentation here. Whilst this works fine for most, it would be great if we could have access to a cypress.dev.json for local development, or even better, a whole host of configuration files for use against a multi-tenant …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[32,12,3],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing","tag-cypress","tag-javascript","tag-testing"],"yoast_head":"\nSupporting multiple configurations in Cypress - 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