nrwl-Nx and Cypress, verification timing out with failed --smoke-test in Windows 7 - node.js

Question

I'm trying to follow along with this tutorial on the NX website. The 2nd part has us setting up e2e testing with Cypress. I followed everything as said and even went as far as commenting out my code and pasting theirs into my files. I'm not getting any errors in the console. The error I see in Node says
Cypress verification timed out
This command failed with the following output:
C:.....\Cache\3.3.1\Cypress\Cypress.exe --smoke-test --ping=852
The tutorial also says there's a UI that should pop up on our app, which I don't see anything of the sort.
After generating the workspace and the application it has us modify the app.po.ts file by adding a couple constants, so far mine looks like this
export const getGreeting = () => cy.get('h1');
export const getTodos = () => cy.get('li.todo');
export const getAddTodoButton = () => cy.get('button#add-todo');
next it tells us to update the app.spec.ts file of the e2e test by adding this
import { getAddTodoButton, getTodos } from '../support/app.po';
describe('TodoApps', () => {
beforeEach(() => cy.visit('/'));
it('should display todos', () => {
getTodos().should(t => expect(t.length).equal(2));
getAddTodoButton().click();
getTodos().should(t => expect(t.length).equal(3));
});
});
The version of this file generated by Nx comes with this already in it
import { getGreeting } from '../support/app.po';
describe('todos', () => {
beforeEach(() => cy.visit('/'));
it('should display welcome message', () => {
getGreeting().contains('Welcome to todos!');
});
});
I originally tried adding the extra test underneath it and added the new imports. After getting the error message I thought maybe I needed to combine the tests into one test which looks like this.
describe('TodoApps', () => {
beforeEach(() => cy.visit('/'));
it('should display welcome message', () => {
getGreeting().contains('Welcome to todos!');
});
it('should display todos', () => {
getTodos().should(t => expect(t.length).equal(2));
getAddTodoButton().click();
getTodos().should(t => expect(t.length).equal(3));
});
});
I'm still getting the same error in Node and have no clue as to what I'm doing wrong. Prior to starting the project I updated node, npm and angular cli. I downloaded Angular Console for VS Code but am running into problems with it so I've just been using the Node Terminal and Brackets. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

if you in windows then you can solve this verification timeout issue by navigating to:
'C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Cypress\Cache\3.4.0\Cypress'
then just double click on Cypress.exe.
After this close it and go back to your ide or terminal and redo what threw the error