cucumber-js reporting service with cypress-cucumber-preprocessor

Question

I am looking to have my Cypress test reports published to the Cucumber Reports service(https://cucumber.io/docs/cucumber/reporting/?lang=javascript)

We use Cypress with cypress-cucumber-preprocessor https://github.com/badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor.

Have the following config:

 "cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": {
    "nonGlobalStepDefinitions": true,
    "stepDefinitions": "cypress/e2e/",
    "cucumberJson": {
      "generate": true,
      "outputFolder": "cypress/cucumber-json",
      "filePrefix": "",
      "fileSuffix": ".cucumber"
    }
  },  

cypress/cucumber-json folder has .cucumber.json files and I expected it to be used on running

cucumber-js --publish       

It does publish a report but with 0 specs i.e

0 scenarios
0 steps
0m00.001s (executing steps: 0m00.000s)