passing variable from globalSetup to test suites

[Madvinking]

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i would like to use a global puppeteer instance to run different test files on different puppeteer tabs.
so for that, I want to initialize a global puppeteer instance and pass It down to each test Suite
Unfortunately, the test files are different than the globalSetup file, so i can't attach it to the instance to the globalSetup file global.

Suggested solution

maybe have the ability to share the global variable between test files and globalsetup

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[sheremet-va]

I highly doubt we will do this, since each test file is isolated and you will need to run globalSetup again, which is just a setupFile, but it's still possible to have a single puppeteer instance and share some context. You can see how it's done in Vite tests: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/tree/main/playground

[Madvinking]

mm ok, u wrote the wsEndpoint to a file and then connect to it each time...
nice solution but a little bit messy.

with jest, I created a test environment and then attach the instance to global.
but for some reason custom environment doesn't work the same way, or at least I wasn't able to configure one

[sheremet-va]

Jest has it's own system, we only provide similar API. The internals are very different. Environments are basically the same as using setupFiles.

[brc-dd]

Just wanted to ask, is there a drawback in directly adding the ws endpoint to process.env.something (instead of writing it to a file and reading later)?

[sheremet-va]

Just wanted to ask, is there a drawback in directly adding the ws endpoint to process.env.something (instead of writing it to a file and reading later)?

If it works, it works 😄

We can't provide this API, so I am closing the issue.