Failure when using a tsconfig file with 'extends'

[gisheri]

The browserstack cli fails to prepare test files if the tsconfig uses 'extends'. If I copy the exact tsconfig that was extended into my compilerOptions rather than using 'extends', then it succeeds. This can be problematic in cases like mine where many services extend a base config.

Repro steps:

• create any simple POC with cypress tests, but attempt to 'extend' another tsconfig file in your tsconfig.
• Run the tests with the browserstack CLI
• Notice the failure "Error: error while parsing tsconfig.json"

Here is a stack overflow question regarding this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72128417/run-typescript-cypress-e2e-tests-over-browserstack#comment128082231_72128417

[pranavj1001]

So the issue here could be that the base config file might be residing at a different location wrt your cypress.json file. Here, you can use the home_directory config to solve this problem. You can find more info about it here -https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/cypress/home-directory

[rao123dk]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72128417/run-typescript-cypress-e2e-tests-over-browserstack#comment128082231_72128417

This question was asked by me on stackoverflow. I was facing same issue but for that quick resolution I removed extends(I know its not ideal solution). But in cypress 10 cypress.json is no longer, so we need support of cypress10.

[pranavj1001]

BrowserStack supports Cypress 10. Here is the docs link -> https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/cypress Let us know if home_directory doesn't solve the issue.