How to use fakerjs in Cypress

Question

I am trying to use fakerjs in my cypress tests to randomly generate fake data for my forms. I have tried exporting it in support/index.js which did not work.

Is there any standard way to add fakerjs to all cypress specs instead of adding it in every spec file?

Answer 1

First off, what's wrong with importing it in every spec?

That being said, you can do this:

cypress/support/index.js:

cy.faker = require('faker');

your specs:

it(`test`, () => {
    const words = cy.faker.lorem.words();
});