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Environment variable CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY does not l...

bright-noon-82211

01/29/2023, 3:08 PM

I am trying to set CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY through a .env file, My project structure looks like this:

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root/
  .env
  .git
  frontend/
    src/
    cypress/
    .env -> The CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY variable is located here
    cypress.config.ts
    package.json
  backend/
    ...

In the cypress.config.ts I added this to load the correct .env:

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dotenv.config({ path: `.env` });
dotenv.config();

And now when I run cypress using

npm run cypress-test

which runs

cypress run --record

I get the error

You passed the --record flag but did not provide us your Record Key.

Can I get any help? - I tried adding the dotenv setup into

plugins/index.ts

- I tried adding the variables to cypress.env.json in the frontend folder. The only thing that seems to work is passing the env variables in the run command it self.

bright-noon-82211

01/29/2023, 3:26 PM

UPDATE: When I added a console log below the dotenv setup like this:

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let res = dotenv.config({ path: `.env`});
console.log(res.parsed);

I got the correct output, meaning dotenv was successfully loading the env variables:

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{
  REACT_APP_STAGE: 'compose',
  REACT_APP_DASHBOARD_VERSION: 'local',
  REACT_APP_MOBILE_REDIRECT: 'false',
  DISABLE_ESLINT_PLUGIN: 'true',
  SKIP_PREFLIGHT_CHECK: 'true',
  CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY: 'xxxxx',
  CYPRESS_API_URL: 'https://cy.currents.dev',
  CYPRESS_BASE_URL: 'https://xxxxxx.com/'
}

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