Visits with a hash (#) where you are visiting the same base url will not re-visit the page.

[nishio]

Current behavior

When I use cy.visit('/'), the page is re-visited and states are reset. (see code A, C)
However, when I use cy.visit('/#blank') (URL with hash), the page is not re-visited and states are retained. (see code B)

It cause unexpected influence between tastcases.

Desired behavior

cy.visit should always visit the specified page.

Test code to reproduce

  it("main", () => {
    cy.visit("/");
    cy.window().its("x").should("eql", undefined);
    cy.window().then(window => {window.x = 1})
    cy.window().its("x").should("eql", 1);

    cy.visit("/");
    cy.window().its("x").should("eql", undefined); // (A)
    cy.window().then(window => {window.x = 2})
    cy.window().its("x").should("eql", 2);

    cy.visit("/#blank");
    cy.window().its("x").should("eql", 2);  // (B)

    cy.visit("/");
    cy.window().its("x").should("eql", undefined);  // (C)
  });

Cypress Version

8.0.0

Other

It may related to #225

[jennifer-shehane]

I believe this is expected behavior with hashes - to not revisit the page since it's just traversing to a hash. Go to https://docs.cypress.io/guides/overview/why-cypress then click on a menu on the righthand side, the page does not reload to go to https://docs.cypress.io/guides/overview/why-cypress#Setting-up-tests

[nishio]

It is expected behavior of browsers, not test runners. We need to isolate each tests.

[nishio]

Are there any way to force browser reload? I am developing single page application whose all URLs have a hash. I need methods to isolate each test cases.

[JessicaSachs]

If you need to force route reloading, you can make a new test (this will destroy the entire iframe) or you can use cy.reload which is defined here after setting the hash with cy.visit(...).

cy.reload basically calls document.location.reload under the hood.

it("main", () => {
  cy.visit("/#blank")
  cy.window().then(window => {window.x = 2})
  cy.window().its("x").should("eql", 2);

  cy.visit("/").reload()
  cy.window().its("x").should("eql", undefined);  // (C)  
});```

[nishio]

Thank you!