SyntaxError: The following error originated from your application code, not from Cypress. > Unexpected token < in JSON at position 2 When Cypress detects uncaught errors originating from your application it will automatically fail the current test. This behavior is configurable, and you can choose to turn this off by listening to the `uncaught:exception` event. https://on.cypress.io/uncaught-exception-from-application Because this error occurred during a `before all` hook we are skipping all of the remaining tests. Although you have test retries enabled, we do not retry tests when `before all` or `after all` hooks fail