[DSC-2740] avoid capturing unhandled exceptions during e2e tests

Author: Andrea Barbasso

cypress/support/e2e.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ import 'cypress-axe';
 
 import { DSPACE_XSRF_COOKIE } from 'src/app/core/xsrf/xsrf.constants';
 
+// We might receive uncaught exceptions from external libraries (e.g. it happened before with a broken
+// version of the addToAny plugin). These should not cause our tests to fail, so we catch them here.
+Cypress.on('uncaught:exception', (err, runnable) => {
+  // returning false here prevents Cypress from failing the test
+  return false;
+});
+
 // Runs once before all tests
 before(() => {
   // Cypress doesn't have access to the running application in Node.js.