Hard coded Node.js version

The config in action.yml overrides any previously set node version (e.g. via actions/setup-node): https://github.com/cypress-io/github-action/blob/ffbc3616ae4754115d05d414810ff4a8e48fc6de/action.yml#L87

This causes failures if the project requires a more recent version, or it depends on a recent version of @cypress/react >= v5.7.0

Ideally the action should use any version of node already available, or have a configuration switch to explicitly set the desired version (similar to actions/setup-node).

[h2oearth]

This issue is still present in Cypress 10:-(. I use Node 14.x, but some how cypress was falling back to Node 12.x

[rbayliss]

I can second this issue. It seems to be happening because of this commit, combined with the fact that this action uses the Cypress node API rather than executing it as a CLI command.

Not sure exactly how to fix this, but a temporary workaround seems to be adding a command-prefix, which triggers invoking the tests with the CLI. Eg:

- name: Cypress Tests
  uses: cypress-io/github-action@v2
  with:
    record: true
    command-prefix: "--"

This is a backdoor that ends up running a cypress command like:

npx -- cypress run ...

Not sure what the side effects of this are (we’re still testing it now), but I can confirm that when run this way, it invokes with the system node version rather than the action’s node version.