ReactJS + Cypress E2E testing - reactjs

Question

a quick question for anyone with React + Cypress experience - writing my first set of E2E tests and here's whats bugging me :
cy.visit('http://movinito.docker.localhost:3000/company/subcontractors');
works, but
cy.visit('/company/subcontractors');
doesn't work as expected (redirects me to the dashboard after login and stays there when I try to assert a pathname includes 'subcontractors').
my baseUrl in the cypress.json is
{"baseUrl": "http://react_frontend.movinito.docker.localhost:3000"}
and it generally works (in case that was what you suspected).
I would like to use the shorter, nicer version cy.visit('/company/subcontractors'); instead of the long winded retype of the baseUrl...
Might be important to add that prior to the .visit I use a
cy.request('POST', 'http://movinito.docker.localhost/user/login?_format=json', {name,pass});
to [successfully] log in... As I said the whole thing works but I can't make use of the baseUrl and have to use the .visit command with the full environement based url...
Here is the [working] full test code
describe('Subcontractors section', ()=> {
it('renders properly', ()=> {
const { name, pass } = {name: 'info#batcave.com', pass: '123#456'}
cy.request('POST', 'http://movinito.docker.localhost/user/login?_format=json', {
name,
pass
});
cy.visit('http://movinito.docker.localhost:3000/company/subcontractors');
//
// I want to replace the above line with cy.visit('/company/subcontractors')
//
cy.location('pathname').should('include', '/company/subcontractors');
cy.get('[data-cy=page-title]').should('have.text', 'Subcontractors');
})
});

Answer 1

hmm, I read the documentation about visit() and request(), this should work to:
describe('Subcontractors section', ()=> {
it('renders properly', ()=> {
cy.visit({
url: 'http://movinito.docker.localhost/user/login?_format=json',
method: 'POST',
body {
name,
pass
}
})
cy.visit('/company/subcontractors')
cy.location('pathname').should('include', '/company/subcontractors')
})
});
// cypress.json
{
"baseUrl": "http://react_frontend.movinito.docker.localhost:3000"
}