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GMAIL

If you are looking to test out emails with cypress:

  1. for free without having to use strange Email Providers
  2. with as little code as possible You just found the solution to this problem!

Examples

How does it work?

We will use a simple NPM package called "gmail-tester", it uses Gmail API under the hood.

The main issues with this package are:

  • you have to create the "credentials.json" and "token.json" files using the "gmail-tester" official guide.
  • you have to renew the "token.json" file at least every 30 days.
  • create a cypress task "plugin" to call "gmail-tester" from a cypress test.

Setup

  1. Install the package "gmail-tester" with
yarn add gmail-tester

  1. Configure the required files for "gmail-tester" following this guide: https://github.com/levz0r/gmail-tester#how-to-get-credentialsjson

  2. Create these Cypress Plugin files with these codes:

  1. Write a simple test to check if the plugin is working: slack-new-account.ts ✨