Possibility to have a prefix command for Cypress package

[metalix2]

We've found it necessary while using the @nx/cypress plugin to be able to have a prefix command to be able to run cypress with other platforms e.g. percy.

In the docs for percy-cypress it gives an example of running cypress:
$ percy exec -- cypress run
which is not possible as the @nx/cypress cmd handles the execution of cypress.

One option would be to have an argument/option either in the plugin/target json to run cypress or in the cypress.config.ts to make use of a prefixCmd argument.

Open to suggestions can also raise a PR with our current solution.

[leosvelperez]

@metalix2 thanks for this request!

We are not currently planning to offer such an extensibility point unless this becomes a widespread pattern across plugins. There's a simple enough workaround that would let you support the use case:

• add the @nx/plugin plugin to your repo: nx add @nx/plugin
• generate a local plugin nx g plugin tools/my-plugin
• invoke the @nx/cypress/plugin from your local plugin and modify the command from the relevant inferred tasks in the way you need it
• replace @nx/cypress/plugin with your local plugin in nx.json

[metalix2]

Thanks for the quick response @leosvelperez, I'll give it a try.