Is it possible to keep executing test if element wasn't found with Cypress

Question

I have a case when I need to wait for element (advertising), if it's visible then needs to click it, but if element wasn't found after timeout then needs to keep executing a test.

How to handle the situation with Cypress ?

Answer 1

I tried the above solution, but seems that in some cases parameter $body could not contain necessary element, cause it was not loaded when we invoked cy.get('body'). So, I found another solution, using jQuery via Cypress, here is it:

let counter = 0;
const timeOut: number = Cypress.config('defaultCommandTimeout');
  
  const sleep = (milliseconds) => {
    const date = Date.now();
    let currentDate = null;
    do {
      currentDate = Date.now();
    } while (currentDate - date < milliseconds);
  };

  while (true) {
    if (Cypress.$(element).length > 0 && Cypress.$(element).is(':visible')) {
      Cypress.$(element).click();
      break;
    } else {
      sleep(500);
      counter = counter + 500;
        if (counter >= timeOut) {
          cy.log(elementName+ ' was not found after timeout');
          break;
        }
    }
  }