Karma check build environment

Question

In the karma.conf.js you can set what browsers to use e.g. :

browsers: [
  "Chrome",
  "Firefox",
  "IE"    
],

Is there anyway in this configuration file to see what the build environment is e.g. Windows or Linux and then only run the tests in the appropriate browsers.

I basically don't want to have to keep changing the config file for karma every time I switch a OS.

Yes. You need to write some code for it, but here's the how to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24276239/detecting-environment-when-running-karma/24286880#24286880 — MarcoL, Mar 15 '16 at 12:58

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '16 at 13:30

After looking into Node.js I found out that you can get the operating system with the following call:

var os = require("os");

With the os variable I was then able to do simple if/else statements with os.type:

if(os.type()==='Linux')

I would then assign the appropriate browser options to the browser array in the config object.

browsers = ["Chrome","Firefox"];

All this logic was done inside the Karam.conf.js file but before the module.exports = function() call.

Karma check build environment

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