Netlify functions are not available during test execution

[spamsch]

Versions

• What is this plugin's version? latest
• What is Cypress version? latest
• What Netlify build image are you using? Ubuntu Xenial 16.04
• What is the Node version if you know it? 12.18.0
• What is the NPM version if you know it? 6.14.4

Describe the bug
When executing tests only static assets are being taken into account. Netlify functions are not provided. This means that all calls to ./functions fail. Locally I'm running netlify dev command to have functions ready.

Solution
Not sure on how to solve this. Perhaps cypress plugin could fire up a netlify server? Or I switch to testing the deployed site for now. But this is also not possible out of the box as baseUrl is set to localhost:8080.

[bahmutov]

As a temporary workaround, you can test against the deployed preview URL https://github.com/cypress-io/netlify-plugin-cypress#testing-deployed-url which should have the functions working

[bahmutov]

You should run Netlify dev during preBuild step, then you will have local functions and API redirects. See the example in the linked PR.

[spamsch]

That's pretty cool and solves my problem!

[bahmutov]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 1.9.1 🎉

The release is available on:

• npm package (@latest dist-tag)
• GitHub release

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