Your configFile is invalid: /builds/testverse/SwagLabs-Cypress/cypress.config.js

[Shady1997]

Current behavior

Running cypress on gitlab pipeline show the following error:

$ npx cypress run --browser chrome --config-file cypress.config.js
It looks like this is your first time using Cypress: 13.14.2
[STARTED] Task without title.
[SUCCESS] Task without title.
Opening Cypress...
MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
glx: failed to create drisw screen
DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:43023/devtools/browser/9b671992-2075-4b0c-b8b7-f2541d8c2980
Your configFile is invalid: /builds/testverse/SwagLabs-Cypress/cypress.config.js

It threw an error when required, check the stack trace below:

Error: Cannot find module 'cypress'
Require stack:
- /builds/testverse/SwagLabs-Cypress/cypress.config.js
- /root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/child/run_require_async_child.js
- /root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/child/require_async_child.js
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1225:15)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1051:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1311:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/builds/testverse/SwagLabs-Cypress/cypress.config.js:2:26)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1469:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1548:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1288:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1104:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1311:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)
    at loadFile (/root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/child/run_require_async_child.js:89:14)
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/child/run_require_async_child.js:116:38)
    at EventEmitter.emit (node:events:519:28)
    at process.<anonymous> (/root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:33:22)
    at process.emit (node:events:519:28)
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:00
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

Desired behavior

No response

Test code to reproduce

$ npx cypress run --browser chrome --config-file cypress.config.js
It looks like this is your first time using Cypress: 13.14.2
[STARTED] Task without title.
[SUCCESS] Task without title.
Opening Cypress...
MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
glx: failed to create drisw screen
DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:43023/devtools/browser/9b671992-2075-4b0c-b8b7-f2541d8c2980
Your configFile is invalid: /builds/testverse/SwagLabs-Cypress/cypress.config.js
It threw an error when required, check the stack trace below:
Error: Cannot find module 'cypress'

Require stack:

- /builds/testverse/SwagLabs-Cypress/cypress.config.js
- /root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/child/run_require_async_child.js
- /root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/child/require_async_child.js
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1225:15)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1051:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1311:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/builds/testverse/SwagLabs-Cypress/cypress.config.js:2:26)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1469:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1548:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1288:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1104:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1311:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)
    at loadFile (/root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/child/run_require_async_child.js:89:14)
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/child/run_require_async_child.js:116:38)
    at EventEmitter.emit (node:events:519:28)
    at process.<anonymous> (/root/.cache/Cypress/13.14.2/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/@packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:33:22)
    at process.emit (node:events:519:28)
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:00
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

Cypress Version

[email protected]

Node version

20.17.0-1nodesource1

Operating System

ubuntu:latest

Debug Logs

No response

Other

No response

[jennifer-shehane]

@Shady1997 Is your config file invalid? You didn't share the contents of that file, so I can't be sure.

[Shady1997]

@Shady1997 Is your config file invalid? You didn't share the contents of that file, so I can't be sure.
this the config file:

// cypress.config.js
const { defineConfig } = require('cypress');

module.exports = defineConfig({
  reporter: 'cypress-mochawesome-reporter',
  reporterOptions: {
    reportDir: 'cypress/reports',       // Directory where the report will be saved
    charts: true,
    reportPageTitle: 'SwagLabs',
    videoOnFailOnly: true,
    saveAllAttempts: false,
    embeddedScreenshots: true,
    inlineAssets: true,
    overwrite: true,                   // Do not overwrite previous reports
    html: true,                         // Generate an HTML report
    json: false,                        // Optionally, also generate a JSON report
    timestamp: 'short',                 // Adds a timestamp to the report file name
  },
  e2e: {
    baseUrl: 'https://www.saucedemo.com/v1/index.html', // Set your base URL
    video: true, // Enable video recording
    supportFile: false,  // Disable support file if not needed
    specPattern: 'cypress/e2e/**/*.js',  // Adjust this to match your test files
    screenshotOnRunFailure: true, // Take screenshot on failure
    defaultCommandTimeout: 10000, // Increase timeout as needed
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      // implement node event listeners here
      require('cypress-mochawesome-reporter/plugin')(on);
    },
  },
});

and this the screenshot after list files to confirm config file included properly

[jennifer-shehane]

@Shady1997 I think the problem here may be that cypress is not included in your package.json file. You cannot npx cypress run. You'll need to install cypress and run cypress run - this is why the cypress module isn't found.

[Shady1997]

@Shady1997 I think the problem here may be that cypress is not included in your package.json file. You cannot npx cypress run. You'll need to install cypress and run cypress run - this is why the cypress module isn't found.

Please check this server error log:

[MikeMcC399]

@Shady1997

Your configFile is invalid:

It threw an error when required, check the stack trace below:

Error: Cannot find module 'cypress'

This is the error that you will get if cypress is missing from node_modules. Normally you would install Cypress locally with

npm install cypress --save-dev

• see https://docs.cypress.io/guides/getting-started/installing-cypress#npm-install

and in .gitignore you would add

node_modules

Then you include the following files in your commit to the GitLab repo:

package.json
package-lock.json

Your workflow should include

npm ci

to install Cypress into your node_modules directory on GitLab temporarily.

See https://docs.cypress.io/guides/continuous-integration/gitlab-ci for GitLab examples.

For "how-to" type support you can connect to the Cypress technical community on Discord

(click on button)

Your problem does not seem to be a bug in Cypress. It looks like a configuration error.

[MikeMcC399]

@Shady1997

Did you try the previous suggestions and were they successful?