How to allow user input from CLI?

[grantspilsbury]

I am using Percy and Cypress to run visual tests on my Nextjs app.

To run a single spec I add this to the script of my package.json eg

    "scripts": {
        "test-visual:single": "start-server-and-test 'npm run dev' http://localhost:3000 'percy exec -- cypress run --spec /path/to/test.cy.ts'",
      },

I want the user to enter the path of the test spec (/path/to/test.cy.ts). What's the right way to do this?

I have tried to use $PATH

$PATH=/path/to/test.cy.ts npm run test-visual:single

"test-visual:single": "start-server-and-test 'npm run dev' http://localhost:3000 'percy exec -- cypress run --spec $PATH'",

I have also tried: npm run test-visual:single /path/to/test.cy.ts

    "scripts": {
        "test-visual:single": "start-server-and-test 'npm run dev' http://localhost:3000 'percy exec -- cypress run --spec $1'",
      },

with no luck

[MikeMcC399]

@grantspilsbury

I guess you solved this yourself!? There is an active technical user community on Discord for Cypress

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[grantspilsbury]

@grantspilsbury

I guess you solved this yourself!? There is an active technical user community on Discord for Cypress

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if you need any help in future about Cypress "how-to" issues.

Thanks Mike. I figured it wasn't really a start-server-and-test issue so I closed it