Bypassing Login

Learn how to use Cypress commands to create helper functions for testing.

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There is something mesmerizing about watching Cypress type and click, but using Cypress in this manner for each test Login would be very time-consuming.

Cypress commands

As an alternative, we can write a Cypress command. Cypress commands allow the creation of helper functions we use in tests. This command will log in by directly submitting the form data and typing username/email and password.

Let’s edit the file src/test/e2e/cypress/support/commands.js by adding the following code:

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