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mbolotov / intellij-cypress

IntelliJ-Cypress plugin: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13819-intellij-cypress Pro version: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13987-cypress-support-pro
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No watch mode #63

Closed tvanc closed 2 years ago

tvanc commented 2 years ago

One thing I enjoy about using Cypress via yarn cypress open is that the tests re-run automatically when the source or test file changes.

With Jest I can modify my run configuration to pass --watch, which does the same.

There doesn't seem to be any way using this plugin to enable a watch mode to cause Cypress to re-run tests automatically when test or source files change.

Thank you for the plugin. I just started using the pro version today.

mbolotov commented 2 years ago

Hi @tvanc! how do you start tests via plugin? do you use the interactive mode? image

This mode will run Cypress using the open command as you do when running it via yarn.

tvanc commented 2 years ago

Selecting Interactive mode does mimic the open command as you say. I would love to be able to have a watch mode that works with Headed or Headless. It can be really handy to debug using the JetBrains debug panel instead of the browser dev tools. Right now if I want to debug with a watch mode, I can only use the browser dev tools.

Some of my tests are unit tests that don't necessarily need a complete browser context. I could use Jest for those if I need to write a lot more of them, and Cypress with this plugin for the ones where jsdom is insufficient. That would get me 80% of the way towards the testing experience I'm looking for.

mbolotov commented 2 years ago

Do you mean that debug via IntelliJ is not working in Interactive mode? Let me double check this, but it should work and I saw it working some time ago. As for the watch mode within run mode, it's a Cypress limitation itself.

tvanc commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the info. I didn't know about the limitation with watch mode within run mode in Cypress.

I just tested and I wasn't able to debug via intellij in interactive mode. In interactive mode, I have to debug using the Chrome dev tools.

mbolotov commented 2 years ago

If you are still not able to debug via intellij in interactive mode, please provide more information to reproduce the problem as I see it working.

tvanc commented 2 years ago

I just had it happen one more time... but not again after I restarted the script in debug mode and reset the breakpoints.

That's good to me 😁

Thank you for the plugin!