Adding npm scripts
scripts
is a package.json
property that gives a user the ability to run commands via the command line in JavaScript applications. npm scripts can be used to add environment variables to the properties of an application, package applications into production-ready bundles, run tests, or automate any other activity in JavaScript applications. npm scripts can either be used as defined by npmjs.com
or customized based on the user's preferences and applications. In this section, we will learn how to write npm scripts to run our Cypress tests, to open our Cypress tests, and even to combine different npm scripts to achieve different results.
Opening a Cypress command script
To create a scripts
command to open Cypress, you need to write the script name then add the command that npm will run when the script is executed. In this case, our command to open Cypress will be embedded in a script called open
. We can achieve this by adding the following command to the scripts...