how does one use module.exports and require in protractor tests?

Question

I am trying to use PageObject pattern in my e2e tests, but I am getting a message that module is not found (Error: cannot find module InsuredSearchPage)

in /acceptance/insured/search/SearchPage.js

I have following

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var InsuredSearchPage = (function () {

    'use strict';

    function InsuredSearchPage() {

        var searchButton = element(by.id(searchFormBtn));

        var page = {
            search: search
        };

        return page;

        function search() {
            searchButton.click();
        }
    }

    return InsuredSearchPage;

})();

module.exports = InsuredSearchPage;

and in test (that is the same folder) i have this

var InsuredSearchPage = require("InsuredSearchPage");

When I run the test, I get 'Error: cannot find module InsuredSearchPage.' What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

It's looking for InsuredSearchPage package in node_modules. You need to specify the location of InsuredSearchPage relative to the directory the file is in:

var InsuredSearchPage = require("./InsuredSearchPage");

The docs have more information on using require()

Answer 2

On top of SomeKittens' answer

var InsuredSearchPage = require("./InsuredSearchPage");

I also had to change the last line in the required file from "module.exports = " to "exports.InsuredSearchPage = InsuredSearchPage"

Node 6.9.2, Protractor 4.0.13