Set global values via grunt+karma karma.conf accessible in the JS context from the test (in browser)?

[brian.m...@gmail.com]

I have a large js webapp, and I am integration testing with protractor and unit testing with karma through grunt plugins.

I realized at one point that I wanted to share certain things across both tests, for example certain mockServices could be reused.

So I split my structure to be:

/testRoot
  /sharedMocks

  /tests

    /unit

    /integration

In the protractor conf's onPrepare function, I wrote a little script to load all files in /shareMocks, example fooMock.js that is a node module, gets imported, and put on global integration.mocks.foo available in any test ran from /integration.

The problem comes when I want to do the same thing symmetrically now in my unit tests. Karma doesn't have an onPrepare function, and seems to have a unique global context. There's no access to node framework, or globals from the grunt plugin, or karma conf.

Anyone have any idea how I can load node modules into a global context for my unit tests?

Cheers!