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> [Cypress] can't handle multiple domains It has for well over a year. https://www.cypress.io/blog/2022/04/25/cypress-9-6-0-easily-test-multi-domain-workflows

> [Cypress] can't handle multiple domains It has for well over a year. https://www.cypress.io/blog/2022/04/25/cypress-9-6-0-easily-test-multi-domain-workflows-with-cy-origin/ https://www.cypress.io/blog/2022/04/25/cypress-9-6-0-easily-...

EddyTests 3y ago
Not really, it was experimental and only released recently (end of last year?). You can't really build experimental features with potentially breaking changes or even a complete removal into a CI pipeline without a lot of risk. The main issue with Cypress handling this is, from what I understand, one browser per domain which can cause huge memory usage (which Cypress already has an issue with). Once you try parallelising multi-domain tests you run out of memory on developer laptops pretty quickly :( But yes ultimately you are right, multi-domain is available, it's just those edge cases that get you once you go beyond simpler cases.
- lmiller1990 3y ago
  Hi, I work on Cypress (but not the multi domain feature). I agree memory usage is an issue, I sure hope we can fix that. It's a hard problem with the frontend execution heavy model Cypress uses, along with the DOM snapshots consuming a ton of memory. There is a `experimentalMemoryManagement` feature that might be of interest to you [0]. The reason this one is experimental is the implications are not fully understood yet, and as a mature software product, we can't just throw out a big feature and "see what happens", so to speak. I understand not wanting to use experimental features, but this might be useful to your existing Cypress projects, even if you aren't using it for your new projects anymore. [0] https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/experiments https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/experiments
  - EddyTests 3y ago
    Thanks for the info! I’ll check it out :)

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> [Cypress] can't handle multiple domains It has for well over a year. https://www.cypress.io/blog/2022/04/25/cypress-9-6-0-easily-test-multi-domain-workflows

by drewcoo 3y ago

EddyTests 3y ago
Not really, it was experimental and only released recently (end of last year?). You can't really build experimental features with potentially breaking changes or even a complete removal into a CI pipeline without a lot of risk. The main issue with Cypress handling this is, from what I understand, one browser per domain which can cause huge memory usage (which Cypress already has an issue with). Once you try parallelising multi-domain tests you run out of memory on developer laptops pretty quickly :( But yes ultimately you are right, multi-domain is available, it's just those edge cases that get you once you go beyond simpler cases.
- lmiller1990 3y ago
  Hi, I work on Cypress (but not the multi domain feature). I agree memory usage is an issue, I sure hope we can fix that. It's a hard problem with the frontend execution heavy model Cypress uses, along with the DOM snapshots consuming a ton of memory. There is a `experimentalMemoryManagement` feature that might be of interest to you [0]. The reason this one is experimental is the implications are not fully understood yet, and as a mature software product, we can't just throw out a big feature and "see what happens", so to speak. I understand not wanting to use experimental features, but this might be useful to your existing Cypress projects, even if you aren't using it for your new projects anymore. [0] https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/experiments https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/experiments
  - EddyTests 3y ago
    Thanks for the info! I’ll check it out :)