05 Cypress Methods - biswajitsundara/Cypress GitHub Wiki

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Visit methods open URL in browser
cy.visit('https://www.google.com/') This will open the url google.com
Cypress recommends to use "baseURL" in conjuction with cy.visit() method
In cypress.json mention the "baseUrl" and then in visit method just append the page.
For example, if we set the "baseUrl" as "https://www.google.com/" and cy.visit("/images")
Then it will open https://www.google.com/images
You see the cy.visit(url) method always appends the url with base url
If there's no baseUrl then it will open the url provided inside the method.
cypress doesn't support url that doesn't start with "http" or "https"
We can also change the default time out while opening the url
cy.visit('/index.html', { timeout: 30000 })
This will wait for the url to load 30 seconds
The cy.visit() method waits for the page to fire it's load event
It may time out waiting for the page to fire its load event.

The then() command allows us to work with the subject yielded from the previous command
It works in same way as promises work
Then command can be used for debugging, extract values, aliases
Example: cy.get('.nav').then(($nav) => {})