通过赛普拉斯在命令行中传递自定义API密钥

Question

I am testing with Cypress, connecting to an external API that requires a key, however I am conscious about not pushing a private key publicly on GitHub.

Is there a way in which I can pass my API key through the command line or in another safe way at the time of running the Cypress app?

"run-cypress": "cypress run --browser chrome --reporter-options configFile=cypress.json"

Could I append something such as

apiKey=abcdefg...

after configFile... ? And how would I access this in the code?

Answer 1

If you're using it alongside some CI tool (eg TravisCI or CircleCI), you can save your API key as the environment variable in your CI dashboard. Then during the CI build, key is read from your settings and therefore never needs to be pushed to source control.

I was in the very same situation as you couple of weeks ago. Here's my Pull Request where I've removed the key (and then manually put it to our CI settings instead)