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Discover how to create and implement a reusable Cypress custom command for user signup, enabling consistent and flexible authentication setup in multiple tests. Understand how to handle default and custom user data within the command and integrate it into your test hooks for improved testing efficiency.
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Introduction
At least half of RealWorld features require a user to be authenticated. By default, Cypress does not allow you to share the state between the tests (which would otherwise be an anti-pattern). We need to transform the signup process into something usable by every test: a Cypress custom command.
A Cypress Custom Command is a function that can be called from the global cy object. We are going to create a cy.signupV1() command to be run before every other test.
Steps to create a new Cypress custom command:
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Create a new file containing the code of the command itself in the ...