Cypress fixtures best practice

Question

On the Cypress docs they recommend to use fixtures this way

cy.fixture('logo.png').then((logo) => { // load data from logo.png }) but I found it messy, and limiting because I can't reach this info outside a running test so I'm using

import cred from "../fixtures/login_creds.json"

Is there a downside to using import? of course I'm using it inside a cy method

cy.get(inputEmail).type(cred.email)

Answer 1

There's nothing wrong with importing a fixture.

It can be useful for data-driven tests.

import sites from '../fixtures/sites.json'

sites.forEach(site => {

  it(`test ${site}`, () => {
    cy.visit(site)
    ...
  })
})