Hooks Are Not Run if Defined in Cypress/support/

Current behavior

It’s mentioned here that Cypress/support/index.js is a good place to set reusable hooks, but if I define a Cucumber hook in this file they are never run. Mocha hooks DO run, but I need to use tags so I want to use the Cucumber hooks if possible. Is there a specific reason the Cucumber hooks aren’t being run when placed in the support directory but mocha hooks are?

Desired behavior

Cucumber hooks run when placed/imported into the Cypress/support/index.js file.

Test code to reproduce

Just use the Cypress example repo and place a Cucumber hook in Cypress/support/index.js such as

Before(() => {
cy.log('Anything?');
});

And you can see this hook is not run and nothing is logged. If you change it to the mocha hook

before(() => {
cy.log('Anything?');
});

You will see this run and log Anything?.

Versions

• Cypress version: 4.4.1
• Preprocessor version: 2.3.1
• Node version: 12.2.0

[AlexK777]

Here is a repo you can use for reproduction. In support/index.js there is a Cucumber Before hook and a Mocha before hook. When you run the feature you can see that only the Mocha hook is being executed. I also tried removing the Mocha hook completely so only the Cucumber hook existed, but then no hooks were run.

https://github.com/AlexK777/cypress-example-kitchensink

1. Run nvm use then yarn.
2. Run yarn cy:open.
3. Run the only feature from the UI and view the output in the UI.

[badeball]

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