How to make a globally accessible variable?

Question

How can I make a globally accessible variable in nightwatch.js? I\'m using a variable to store a customized url (dependent on which store is loaded in our online product), b

Answer 1

To expand on Tricote's answer, Nightwatch has built-in support for this. See the documentation.

You can either specify it in the nightwatch.json file as "globals": {"myvar": "whatever"} or in a globals.js file that you reference within nightwatch.json with "globals": "path/to/globals.js". In the latter case, globals.js could have:

module.exports = {
  myvar: 'whatever'
};

In either case, you can access the variable within your tests as Tricote mentioned:

module.exports = {
  "test": function(browser) {
    console.log(browser.globals.myvar); // "whatever"
  }
};