How to set retryAssertionTimeout based on environment in Nightwatch - nightwatch.js

Question

I'm trying to set the retryAssertionTimeout based on the environment. I have a node variable (NODE_ENV) that will be set to either QA or Prod and based on the value of that variable, I want to set a corresponding value for the retryAssertionTimeout. Here's my globals.js file ...
module.exports = {
//retryAssertionTimeout: 30000,
before: function (done) {
console.log("test env: " + process.env.NODE_ENV)
if (process.env.NODE_ENV == 'qa') {
console.log("Running in the QA environment")
retryAssertionTimeout: 30000
}
done()
}
}
Unfortunately, this doesn't work.

Answer 1

I would do it as below.
module.exports = {
retryAssertionTimeout: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'qa' ? '4000' : '5000',
before: function (done) {
console.log("Environment Selected: " + process.env.NODE_ENV)
done()
}
}

Answer 2

I put the suggested code into my globals.js file (I specified 10000 for the qa timeout value). I then created and ran a simple test like so ...
module.exports = {
'Simple Test': function (browser) {
console.log("*** retryAssertionTimeout: " + browser.globals.retryAssertionTimeout)
browser.waitForElementVisible('.someFakeSelector')
}
}
The output is ....
C:\git\portal-ui-tests>node nightwatch tests/simpleTest.js
Environment Selected: qa
[Simple Test] Test Suite
i Connected to localhost on port 4444 (10061ms).
Using: firefox (77.0.1) on windows 10.0 platform.
Running: Simple Test
*** retryAssertionTimeout: 10000
× Timed out while waiting for element <.someFakeSelector> to be present for 5000 milliseconds. - expected "visible" but got: "not found" (5085ms)
So it looks like retryAssertionTimeout is being set but it's not being used when I call waitForElementVisible.