ECONNREFUSED error for Angular app when making a request outside of app first.

[ChristianPavilonis]

I'm encountering strange behavior for my tests when my test makes a request to an API to setup some data first before cy.visit() is called.

My project has an angular frontend with an express api, to reset my data and login before tests I make a request to the express backend using cy.request('localhost:3000/... then I call cy.visit('/'); I get the ECONNREFUSED error. And I have to kill cypress and start over.

But, if I comment out my cy.request() method first, run the tests, they will visit correctly, then I can un-comment out the code and all my tests will work.

Example:

This will create the error:

describe('foo', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    cy.refreshDatabase();
    cy.visit('/foo');
  });

  ...
});

This fixes the error, but I must first exit cypress, reopen it, remove the code, run it once, finally add the code back, then I can work.

describe('foo', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    // cy.refreshDatabase();
    cy.visit('/foo');
  });

  ...
});

The refreshDatabase command looks like:

Cypress.Commands.add('refreshDatabase', () => {
    return cy.request({
        url: 'http://localhost:3000/__cypress__/refresh-database',
        method: 'POST',
        body: {},
    }).its('body', {log: false});
});

Any ideas?

[AGuyCoding]

did you ever found a solution to this?