Can't use console to debug plugins run with "nodeVersion" : "system"

[Talii123]

Current behavior:

console.log(..) and console.error(..) statements in plugins do NOT produce output in the console used to open cypress if the {nodeVersion: "system"} setting is used.

All works as expected if:

• using Cypress v3.4
• using Cypress v3.5, v3.6 provided that {nodeVersion: "system"} is not used.

Desired behavior:

We should be able to continue to use console.log/error to print messages to the console as part of our debugging approach when running plugins with our system's node.

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

In your cypress.json, include:
"nodeVersion": "system"

In your plugin file, include:

console.log('You can't see me!')

Versions

Cypress v3.5 and 3.6
OS: Windows 10
Browser: N/A

Related: #4432

[brian-mann]

Haven't looked into this, but we should be inheriting the stdio streams from the child process so they should log out. We'll look at it and see what's up. Should be an easy fix if that's the case.

[Talii123]

Yeah I figured as much. Thanks @brian-mann

[cypress-app-bot]

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[cypress-app-bot]

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