Cypress Installation Self-Signed Certificate/ Proxy Issue

#webdev #cypress #testing

Recently when I was trying to install Cypress for my project, it was failed due to self-signed certificate or proxy issue as below:

I've tried to set the NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS to point to my certificate in local as environment variable but it's still not working.

After digging around the documentation, I found a way to solve this problem as below:-

1.Download the cypress zip file for the version you want to install from the official cypress website

2.Set the CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY to the cypress zip location that you've downloaded at .npmrc or you can use npm set command to set the variable.

CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY=/path/to/cypress.zip

npm config set CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY /path/to/cypress.zip

3.Use npm install command to install the cypress.Then it will install the downloaded cypress zip instead of downloading from the source.

 npm install --save-dev cypress

Thank you and see you next time :)

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