How To Inject Environment Variables Into Cypress Tests

1 · Gleb Bahmutov · Nov. 26, 2022, 9:38 p.m.
Summary
Let's say you want to pass an environment variable with the user name into a Cypress test. Since the test runs in the browser, you cannot access the process.env.USERNAME directly. Instead you need to inject the variable using on of the several of the ways. Here is how I would do it:Use .as-a.ini fileI would keep all passwords in a file .as-a.ini that is ignored by my source rules. Thus the sensitive information is never checked into the source control. For example, I would name the block of envi...