Nightwatch tests have lost their colors

I found a workaround for this issue by force enabling colors:

.nightwatch-base:
  variables:
    # For some reason, Nightwatch doesn't enable colors for GitLab, but should.
    FORCE_COLOR: "1"

Reported an issue about this https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/issues/4401 - please upvote :)

This is a great find!! I'd say let's add the variable to the nightwatch base job regardless of the outcome of that issue.

Do you want to give it a go?

Yeah, let's give it a go, created an MR https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_templates/-/merge_requests/342 - please review.

Thanks. I have triggered our downstream testing projects, and the Nightwatch current and next minor (running Nightwatch 3.9) are now in color.
https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_templates_downstream/-/pipelin...
It also does not affect the older versions. Does this need to be added to any documentation page and/or echo the variable to the log? Not sure it is necessary but just asking.

I don't think we need to show this variable or add it to the documentation. It was a regression from Nightwatch which will likely be fixed. Also, it's an "internal" variable.

The code looks good to me, thanks!

By the way, if you run Nightwatch tests in parallel, you will face another issue with GitLab CI output: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/issues/4396 - just sharing here for others who are trying to find how to fix this, no needs to fix this in the pipeline, cuz it should be fixed from the Nightwatch side, I believe.

Oh, thanks for letting us know. Hopefully it'll be fixed upstream then.

I've merged the changes. Fixed!

@murz I am interested to know how you discovered the environment variable FORCE_COLOR=1

@murz I am interested to know how you discovered the environment variable FORCE_COLOR=1

Just explored a lot of similar issues on other packages with missing colors, and then - found this: https://nodejs.org/download/release/v16.9.0/docs/api/cli.html#cli_force_...
And it surprisingly started to work well! :)

Thank you. That's a great find :-)