Cypress Maildev

Cypress Maildev is a bunch of Cypress commands in order to test your messages (SMS and Emails) by using Maildev REST API.

Installation

npm install cypress-maildev --save-dev
yarn add cypress-maildev --dev

Usage

1. Register the plugin :

// cypress/support/e2e.js

require('cypress-maildev');

2. Specify your maildev address

By default, Maildev API is started at the http://localhost:1080. If you are using default maildev instance, you have nothing to do!

You can also use env vars in your cypress.config.js as below :

const { defineConfig } = require("cypress");

module.exports = defineConfig({
  env: {
    MAILDEV_PROTOCOL: "http",
    MAILDEV_HOST: "localhost",
    MAILDEV_SMTP_PORT: "1025",
    MAILDEV_API_PORT: "1080",
  },
});

For example, by using like this project a docker compose with cypress and maildev containers, you have to configure your cypress.config.js like this:

const { defineConfig } = require("cypress");

module.exports = defineConfig({
  env: {
    MAILDEV_PROTOCOL: "http",
    MAILDEV_HOST: "localhost",
    MAILDEV_SMTP_PORT: "1025",
    MAILDEV_API_PORT: "1080",
  },
});

Check the Maildev REST API documentation for what you can expect in responses.

Commands

Usage

All of theses commands use directly cy.request() which return a Cypress Promise like. Check the doc !

Using one of this commands must be like this example :

  cy.maildevGetLastMessage().then((email) => {
    expect(email.subject).to.equal("I'm the last email sent !");
  });

For more examples you can check directly the test file.

Documentation

Get all messages received in the Maildev instance.

cy.maildevGetAllMessages()

Get the last message received.

cy.maildevGetLastMessage()

Each messages got an internal ID. If you know it, you can find it directly.

cy.maildevGetMessageById(id: String)

You can also directly access to the HTML of your email by calling.

cy.maildevVisitMessageById(id: String)

And you can use Cypress promise to manipulate or assert the DOM of your email :

  cy.maildevVisitMessageById(id: String);
  cy.get('body h1').should('have.text', 'Email incoming !');
  cy.get('body a').should('exist').and('have.text', 'click on this link');

You must have to specify "chromeWebSecurity": false, because you will access to another domain than your app. Unfortunately, Cypress can't deactivate the cross-origin requests for Firefox actually.

Get all messages and find one by containing a specific subject. It's a simple string detection case-sensitive.

cy.maildevGetMessageBySubject(subject: String)

Get all messages and find the last containing a sent to address. Use a strict string comparison.

cy.maildevGetMessageBySentTo()

Delete a message by giving the ID. In can be useful if you to only keep message that you haven't read yet.

cy.maildevDeleteMessageById()

Delete all message in order to flush your mailbox !

cy.maildevDeleteAllMessages()

Get an OTP code from a string. It can be used outside of maildev box because it doesn't use maildev API but generally OTP code are sent by messages. This function find in a string a specific amount of digits (default 6).

cy.maildevGetOTPCode(string, digits = 6)

Or use with another maildev command

  cy.maildevGetMessageBySubject("Your code").then(message => {
    cy.maildevGetOTPCode(message.text).then(code => {
      // Do something with the code
    });
  });

Simple test command that return true if Maildev is opened.

cy.maildevHealthcheck()

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

• Clone the repo

• Install dependencies: make install

• Start maildev: make start

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate and run make test command

License

MIT