Tips for using Cypress with Meteor

[novigradian]

Is anyone using Cypress with Meteor?

Do you have any tips on easing some of the pain point of using it with Meteor such as:

• Logging in programatically
• Resetting and seeding the database

[lc3t35]

maybe here https://dev.to/splitified/test-your-meteor-app-with-docker-jenkins-and-cypress-part-1-12om
and https://guide.meteor.com/testing.html#test-data (same tools : cleaner and faker)

[novigradian]

I can’t import xolvio:cleaner in Cypress though, can I? As it is an Atmosphere package.

This works:
import React from 'react';
This doesn’t:
import { resetDatabase } from 'meteor/xolvio:cleaner';

[lc3t35]

look at this thread : Anybody else had this? "Error: Cannot find module 'meteor/xolvio:cleaner'"

[lalomores]

@novigradian

I think both of those questions can be addressed by this comment

Cypress with MeteorJS: user does not stay logged in

That’s an interesting way to do it. We just login with a user that are in our test fixtures and we reset the db to these with each spec. Here’s some commands you can grab - some of which we grabbed from various forum posts and github issues over the months we’ve been using cypress. Apologies if I can’t remember who to attribute all the various bits to but I think @mitar & @florianbienefelt helped Cypress.Commands.add("resetDb", () => { const mongoport = 3001; cy.exec( …

Yet a long time has passed since your original question. Maybe now you have some BKMs to share with us newcomers to Cypress ?