Cypress Component Testing seems to ignore `watchForFileChanges: false`

[obeobe]

Current behavior

Setting watchForFileChanges to false seems to have no effect in component testing (i.e. when starting Cypress with npx cypress open-ct).

It does work with regular Cypress (i.e. npx cypress open).

I tried with and without adding it under the component key in addition to root - and in both cases it didn't work.

Desired behavior

Cypress should not refresh and restart the test when the spec file changes when the watchForFileChanges flag is set to false.

Test code to reproduce

My cypress.json:

{
    "watchForFileChanges": false,
    "experimentalStudio": true,
    "integrationFolder": "cypress/integration",
    "video": false,
    "defaultCommandTimeout": 8000,
    "component": {
        "watchForFileChanges": false,
        "defaultCommandTimeout": 10,
        "viewportHeight": 500,
        "viewportWidth": 700
    }
}

Code:

describe("test", () => {
    it("test", () => {
        expect(42).to.equal(42);
    });
});

And then make a change in the file, and save.

Cypress Version

8.7.0 (currently the latest 8.* version)

Other

It's a big issue because IntelliJ saves files automatically and it causes many undesired refreshes.

[lmiller1990]

For now you can do it on a dev server basis:

• webpack docs hot: false
• vite server: { hmr: false }

We should fix this.

[cypress-app-bot]

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[cypress-app-bot]

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