Shell: Command fails: "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'goto')"

[mirao]

It's a regression in 3.7.0. It works well in 3.6.10.

Steps:

• Initialize a project

npx create-codeceptjs .
npx codeceptjs init # Create a Playwright test, with "Show browser window = yes"

• Run shell

mirao@jobr:~/workspace/my$ codeceptjs shell
Deprecation Warning: 'tryTo' has been moved to the 'codeceptjs/effects' module. Disable tryTo plugin to remove this warning.
Deprecation Warning: 'retryTo' has been moved to the 'codeceptjs/effects' module. Disable retryTo plugin to remove this warning.
Starting interactive shell for current suite...
Error processing test.before event:
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'disableRetryFailedStep')
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/home/mirao/workspace/my/node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/plugin/retryFailedStep.js:111:19)
    at EventEmitter.emit (node:events:536:35)
    at EventEmitter.emit (node:domain:489:12)
    at Object.emit (/home/mirao/workspace/my/node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/event.js:153:28)
    at module.exports (/home/mirao/workspace/my/node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/command/interactive.js:32:11)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async Command.<anonymous> (/home/mirao/workspace/my/node_modules/codeceptjs/bin/codecept.js:38:7)
Error while loading home page: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'goto')}
 Interactive shell started
 Use JavaScript syntax to try steps in action
 - Press ENTER to run the next step
 - Press TAB twice to see all available commands
 - Type exit + Enter to exit the interactive shell
 - Prefix => to run js commands 
 I.

BTW the message TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'disableRetryFailedStep') is strange. Not sure if it affects the next behavior (but maybe it's a different issue). Could you look at it?

• Enter amOnPage("https://codecept.io/")

Expected result:

• The command is performed

Actual result:

• It fails

 I.amOnPage("https://codecept.io/")
 ERROR  Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'goto')
 I.TypeError: Chaining cycle detected for promise #<Promise>
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)

Also I would expect that a Chromium in windowed mode should be started in the shell mode, but it doesn't happen 🐛 .

---

codecept.conf.ts:

import { setHeadlessWhen, setCommonPlugins } from '@codeceptjs/configure';
// turn on headless mode when running with HEADLESS=true environment variable
// export HEADLESS=true && npx codeceptjs run
setHeadlessWhen(process.env.HEADLESS);

// enable all common plugins https://github.com/codeceptjs/configure#setcommonplugins
setCommonPlugins();

export const config: CodeceptJS.MainConfig = {
  tests: './*_test.ts',
  output: './output',
  helpers: {
    Playwright: {
      browser: 'chromium',
      url: 'http://localhost',
      show: true
    }
  },
  include: {
    I: './steps_file'
  },
  name: 'my'
}

Used SW:

• CodeceptJS 3.7.0 or 3.7.2
• Playwright 1.50.1
• NodeJS 22
• Ubuntu 24.04

[mirao]

I'm able to fix the issue TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'disableRetryFailedStep') by a help of CoPilot:

  event.dispatcher.on(event.test.before, test => {
    // Safely check for test and test.opts
    if (!test || !test.opts) {
      store.autoRetries = false;
      return; // Exit early if test or test.opts is undefined
    }
    ...
  }

but it's still failing on the TypeError: Chaining cycle detected for promise error if I call some method or if I just press ENTER

$ codeceptjs shell
Deprecation Warning: 'tryTo' has been moved to the 'codeceptjs/effects' module. Disable tryTo plugin to remove this warning.
Deprecation Warning: 'retryTo' has been moved to the 'codeceptjs/effects' module. Disable retryTo plugin to remove this warning.
Starting interactive shell for current suite...
 Interactive shell started
 Use JavaScript syntax to try steps in action
 - Press ENTER to run the next step
 - Press TAB twice to see all available commands
 - Type exit + Enter to exit the interactive shell
 - Prefix => to run js commands 
 I.see("Domain")
node:internal/process/task_queues:95
    runMicrotasks();
    ^

TypeError: Chaining cycle detected for promise #<Promise>
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

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