How to authenticate cypress in passwordless with magic link authentication

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I’m looking for ways on how to authenticate web app for cypress test. The application only has passwordless authentication enabled. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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Hi @mohsin_poc,

Welcome to the Auth0 Community!

You could use the Authorization Code Flow to authenticate your web app with passwordless.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Rueben

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Thanks @rueben.tiow. Can you expand on how a Authorization code flow would help here if the client is SPA?

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Hi @mohsin_poc,

If the client is a SPA, then you must use the Authorization Code Flow with PKCE.

Thanks,
Rueben

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@rueben.tiow just making sure i understand the solution. I setup a dummy app in auth0 with passwordless with email code.
When i hit the /authorize endpoint document in Authorization code flow. I’m presented with login screen. Entering the email would send a code to the email box. Now this is a problem, cypress does not have access to email box. what is the work around?

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Hi @mohsin_poc,

Thanks for the update.

You might be able to work around this by configuring a Test SMTP Email Server to capture and retrieve test emails from the passwordless login.

Thanks,
Rueben

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