I'm trying to setup my beforeEach to create a new email if none exist before starting my tests, but when I try to count how many emails there are in my beforeEach, it always logs as 0, even if there are more. If I log the count in my it block, it shows the correct count.
Does this look correct? How can I properly check the count in the beforeEach so that it doesn't always create a new email for every test?
describe("email", () => {
beforeEach(() => {
cy.visit("/");
let count = Cypress.$('#emails').length
// always logs 0
cy.log(count)
if(count == 0) {
createNewEmail()
}
});
it("email", () => {
let count = Cypress.$('#emails').length
// logs correct amount
cy.log(count)
});
});
Cypress commands are asynchronous. So when the test executes cy.visit("/") it does not mean that the next line will be executed after the page gets really loaded.
You can fix this as follows:
beforeEach(() => {
cy.visit("/").then(() => {
let count = Cypress.$('#emails').length
cy.log(count)
if(count == 0) {
createNewEmail()
}
})
}