error: unknown option: --watch for component-tests after updating nx to 18.0.4

[tar-aldev]

Current Behavior

When trying to run nx component-test --watch it fails with

  error: unknown option: --watch

I can reproduce it both on new and existing project. As a result it is impossible to run cypress tests in watch mode.

Expected Behavior

--watch flag should work for tests. It is also not possible to set it in project.json targets as an option.

GitHub Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

1. create cypresss ocmponent tests
2. try to run it with --watch

Nx Report

Node   : 18.18.2
   OS     : darwin-arm64
   pnpm   : 8.7.6

   nx                 : 18.0.4
   @nx/js             : 18.0.4
   @nx/jest           : 18.0.4
   @nx/linter         : 18.0.4
   @nx/eslint         : 18.0.4
   @nx/workspace      : 18.0.4
   @nx/cypress        : 18.0.4
   @nx/devkit         : 18.0.4
   @nx/eslint-plugin  : 18.0.4
   @nx/express        : 18.0.4
   @nx/next           : 18.0.4
   @nx/node           : 18.0.4
   @nx/playwright     : 18.0.4
   @nx/react          : 18.0.4
   @nx/storybook      : 18.0.4
   @nrwl/tao          : 18.0.4
   @nx/web            : 18.0.4
   @nx/webpack        : 18.0.4
   typescript         : 5.3.3
   ---------------------------------------
   Community plugins:
   @ago-dev/nx-aws-cdk-v2 : 1.6.1

Failure Logs

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Package Manager Version

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Operating System

• [ ] macOS
• [ ] Linux
• [ ] Windows
• [ ] Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

If I put this into project.json

"component-test": {
      "executor": "@nx/cypress:cypress",
      "options": {
        "cypressConfig": "...",
        "skipServe": true,
        "testingType": "component"
      },
      "configurations": {
        "production": {
          "devServerTarget": "..."
        }
      }
    }

then I am able to pass --watch flag. Not sure if this is an expected bahviour or not

[DevNebulae]

In general I have noticed that Cypress doesn't work too well with inferred tasks / Project Crystal. I still need to add all the manual configuration to make either work, even for newly generated projects. Issues ranging from certain commands (i.e. --watch) not working to certain options not being available that are described in the documentation.

[andrewalderson]

Just ran into the same issue with e2e tests. As above, I had to specifically add the target to project.json to make it work.

[McGiogen]

Same here. Probably --watch and other flags doesn't works because infer targets are using nx:run-commands instead of @nx/cypress:cypress as executor and they are custom flags of @nx/cypress plugin.

This is our infer e2e target:

    "e2e": {
      "cache": true,
      "inputs": [
        "default",
        "^production"
      ],
      "outputs": [
        "{workspaceRoot}\\dist\\cypress\\apps\\evohrp-e2e\\videos",
        "{workspaceRoot}\\dist\\cypress\\apps\\evohrp-e2e\\screenshots"
      ],
      "executor": "nx:run-commands",
      "options": {
        "cwd": "apps/evohrp-e2e",
        "command": "cypress run"
      },
      "configurations": {
        "production": {
          "command": "cypress run --env webServerCommand=\"nx run evohrp:serve:production\""
        }
      }
    },

You can check yourself with command nx show project <project-name>.

Unfortunately I have found no way to use cypress open without overriding infer e2e command.

[leosvelperez]

Thanks for reporting this!

We addressed running the e2e tests in watch mode in https://github.com/nrwl/nx/pull/22556 that was released in Nx 18.2.0. The Cypress plugin will now infer an open-cypress task that runs cypress open.

I'll take a look for Component Testing.

[leosvelperez]

@tar-aldev could you update your repo to at least Nx 18.2.0 and try running the newly inferred open-cypress task?

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