That's what I do for my tests currently, yeah. If you can log in via an api, it doesn't add too much time to the execution. Though if you're doing it via the UI that would be painful Otherwise, the Cypress team is working on a

cy.session()

api that allows you to save session cookies between scenarios and reuse them. That might be useful for you. It's got some great documentation so it shouldn't be too difficult for you to get up and running