Changing the baseUrl value in cypress.config.js will not take effect until restarting cypress

[Ibrahim-Krasniqi]

Current behavior

when changing the value of baseUrl in cypress.config.js both the cypress window as well as the cypress controlled instance of the browser reload giving the impression that the changes to configuration are taking effect, this is not the case however

Note: I did not test all values that can be altered in cypress.config.js however at least with viewportWidth and viewportHeight, altering them and saving does not require a restart of cypress for them to take effect.

Desired behavior

No response

Test code to reproduce

create cypress.config.js with the following code:

const { defineConfig } = require('cypress')

module.exports = defineConfig({

  e2e: {
    baseUrl: 'https://www.google.com/'
  }
})

cypress open in terminal
change the contents of cypress.config.js to the following while cypress is running:

const { defineConfig } = require('cypress')

module.exports = defineConfig({

  e2e: {
    baseUrl: 'https://www.cypress.io/'
  }
})

you will notice that even though the page reloads the test still go to the first url

Cypress Version

v10.0.1

Other

No response

[jennifer-shehane]

@Ibrahim-Krasniqi Thanks for reporting, we'll investigate this. This is not the desired behavior.

[jennifer-shehane]

Confirmed this does not update the baseUrl when changing in the config without a restart.

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#22154, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[cypress-bot]

Released in 10.1.0.

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