cypress should live reload when changes made to fixturesFolder

[brettz9]

Current behavior:

When changing plugins or fixtures, the tests opened by cypress open are not auto-reloaded as they are when changes are made to cypress/integration or cypress/support files.

Desired behavior:

Unless there is some good reason for it, I would expect the pages would reload. While I can see that plugins might be more consequential in having unintended side-effects, so too can support files (which can use plugins by way of commands), I would at least think that changes tofixtures would trigger reloads, and I'd personally like to see changes to plugins be able to do so.

Test code to reproduce

1. Run cypress open on some repository.
2. Open a test file
3. Modify a file in /plugins
4. See that the test file does not reload (nor does the command line show changes)

Versions

Cypress: 4.1.0
OS: Mac 10.15.2
Browser: Firefox or Chrome

[jennifer-shehane]

Updating on changes to plugins is duplicate of #2869 - we can't actually watch and just rerun it because it could crash Cypress essentially, so the proposal is to display a message to warn that there have been changes. There is an open PR - but it is stale atm.

Change to fixtures does take effect when reloading the page, but yes - live reload does not reload the test when fixtures are changed.

I will update the scope of this issue as a request to live reload when changes are made to fixturesFolder.

[jennifer-shehane]

Since this request has not gotten a lot of interest over the years, we’ll close this issue.