e2e testing - Cypress pipe console.log and command log to output

Question

Is it possible to redirect or capture Cypress browser log and command log to output?

I read some Cypress github issues on this topic. But I don't know how to make it work.

Basically, I want to capture all the Cypress GUI command logs in the headless non-GUI mode. If I can include browser console log will be even better. The purpose is to understand what happened when a test fails.

I use teamcity as ci. Here is an example of my build log. I want to see all the command log here too. Actually, any console.log run on the server side using cy.task is displayed in the build log. Running cy.task('log',message) is too manual. Any smarter ways?

[09:49:08][Step 1/1] 2 of 4: new actions (52s)
[09:50:00][Step 1/1] 3 of 4: new actions (52s)
[09:50:53][Step 1/1] 4 of 4: new actions (53s)
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   (Results)
[09:51:47][Step 1/1] 
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Tests:        8                     │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Passing:      8                     │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Failing:      0                     │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Pending:      0                     │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Skipped:      0                     │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Screenshots:  0                     │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Video:        true                  │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Duration:     3 minutes, 38 seconds │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Estimated:    1 minute, 8 seconds   │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   │ Spec Ran:     action/action_spec.js │
[09:51:47][Step 1/1]   └─────────────────────────────────────┘

Answer 1

As of Cypress 3.0.0, you can use cy.task() to access node directly and output to the node console. From the docs:

// in test
cy.task('log', 'This will be output to the terminal')

// in plugins file
on('task', {
  log (message) {
    console.log(message)
    return null
  }
})

See here for more info.

I don't know of a way to mirror the Cypress logs to the console directly, but this is at least a workable alternative.