Cypress + Reporter Plugin in nested projects. Could not load reporter by name: reporter

Current behavior:

Based on the project: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-test-nested-projects I’m trying to use a reporter (In these case mochawesome)to generate report logs of my runs in cypress, but it always expected the reporter was installed inside the nested project so cypress never run the tests.

Image with the error that throw:

Here is a example repo where you can test this behavior: https://github.com/danyfu/cy_mocha_awesome_nested_folders_tests

Desired behavior:

Cypress runs with the desired reporter without the nested level of the project.

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

Execute npm run cy:run:foo

This is what nested project foo/cypress.json has:

{
    "reporter": "mochawesome",
    "reporterOptions": {
        "mochaFile": "cypress/results/results-[hash].xml"
    }
}

Versions

cypress: ^3.3.1 Chrome: Version 74.0.3729.169 (Official Build) (64-bit) OS: MacOS 10.14.5 (Mojave)

[mihalcan]

Setting the relative path to mochawesome.js worked fine for me:

"reporter": "../../node_modules/mochawesome/src/mochawesome.js",
"reporterOptions": {
    ...
 }`

[adamtay]

Thanks for sharing @danyfu but this workaround would mean having to rely on a run script and losing the ability to run default cli commands.

Would be great if cypress could also search for node_modules at the project root directory instead of just looking at the nested project directory.