Cypress Email Authentication

Blog post: https://dev.to/pcreem/cypress-next-auth-mail-authentication-57f0

Code sample demonstrating how to test an email authentication workflow with Cypress. Mails are sent to Mailtrap and exposed through its API.

Setting up

• npx yarn

• signup an Mailtrap account and get SMTP server in demo inbox

• code .env.local

EMAIL_SERVER_USER=
EMAIL_SERVER_PASSWORD=
EMAIL_SERVER_HOST=
EMAIL_SERVER_PORT=
EMAIL_FROM=
NEXTAUTH_URL=

• code cypress.env.json

{
    "inboxUrl":"Your Mailtrap Inbox url with inboxId",
    "Api-Token":"Your Mailtrap API token"
}

Running the tests

• npx cypress open
• run sample_spec.js test

the result should like this