Doubt: load multiple fixtures once per Cypress execution

I have 3 sites, and each site has 3 envs, each with their config.json and fixtures.json. However, part of the fixture is common, like routes which contains endpoints. Following the DRY pattern, I refactored the common bits to a routes.json.

I basically want to load multiple fixtures…

• avoiding “pyramid of doom of fixtures”, as in this example
• if possible, once per Cypress execution (it’s a bit of a waste on a before()), unlike this example

Ideally I would be able to access each fixture file independently like:

cy.visit(routes.account.edit)
...
cy.get(selectorNotification).should("contain", keywords.dialog.success)

Given a file like:

// routes.json
{
  "account": {
    "edit": "/account/edit"
  },
  "users": {
    "list": "/users",
    "search": "/user/search"
  },
  ...
} 

I’ve tried a mix of cy.fixture, Cypress.config, fs.readFile, cy.readFile to no avail and now I’m too biased to think out of the box.

Please, can you advise me a solution? I feel like I’m over-engineering it.

[deventually]

Another solution could be to collect fixtures in a Promise The paths parameter is an array of paths to fixtures

const fixtures = (paths) => Promise.all(paths.map(p => cy.fixture(p)))

Use like this:

fixtures(['path/1', 'path/2']).then(filesContents => {
  console.log(filesContents)
})

[dialex]

This works:

const configHelper = new ConfigHelper()
let routes, keywords, fixtures
before(() => {
  cy.fixture(configHelper.getRoutesPath()).then(c => {
    routes = c
  })
  cy.fixture(configHelper.getKeywordsPath()).then(c => {
    keywords = c
  })
  cy.fixture(configHelper.getFixturesPath()).then(c => {
    fixtures = c
  })
})

describe("Example component under test", function() {
  it("expects a certain behaviour", function() {
    expect(routes).to.be.not.undefined
    expect(keywords).to.be.not.undefined
    expect(fixtures).to.be.not.undefined
  })
})

But it’s annoying having to copy that whole block of boilerplate to every test file.