Facing Issue 'unhandledRejection: this.client.reporter.setCurrentSection is not a function' On Execution

[anupamtomar]

While Executing the single .js file $ npm run test -- Test\test-cases\basicoperation.js command getting the below error, I debugged and checked with console.log too, execution is just going inside the 'describe' suite but not inside the test 'it', by the time it reaches to test 'it', it got failed at first place and gives the below error in the console, moreover I have mentioned the 'before' hook inside the 'describe' suite but it is bypassing the before hook as well.

Can someone please help me out here?

Error
   unhandledRejection: this.client.reporter.setCurrentSection is not a function
TypeError: this.client.reporter.setCurrentSection is not a function
    at TestSuite.runGlobalHook (C:\someuser\VSTS_Repository\someProject\node_modules\nightwatch\dist\testsuite\index.js:380:30)
    at TestSuite.onTestSuiteFinished (C:\someuser\VSTS_Repository\someProject\node_modules\nightwatch\dist\testsuite\index.js:489:21)   
    at onSuiteFinished (C:\someuser\VSTS_Repository\someProject\node_modules\nightwatch\dist\runner\test-runners\mocha\custom-runner.js:39:35)
    at CustomRunner.runSuite (C:\someuser\VSTS_Repository\someProject\node_modules\nightwatch\dist\runner\test-runners\mocha\custom-runner.js:62:20)

When trying to run a folder (Multiple .js files) $ npm run test -- Test\test-cases command then getting the below kind of console response-

Running   default: Test\test-cases\basicoperation.js  
Running   default: Test\test-cases\test.js  
┌ ────────────────── ×  default: Test\test-cases\basicoperation.js  ┐
│                                                                          │
│                                                                          │
│                                                                          │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌ ────────────────── ×  default: Test\test-cases\test.js  ┐
│                                                                │
│                                                                │
│                                                                │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Please find the relevant details below-

Node Version - v18.14.2
npm version - 9.5.0
Java version - java 11.0.12 2021-07-20 LTS

//package.json
...
"scripts": {
    "test": "nightwatch",
  },
"dependencies": {
    "@nightwatch/selenium-server": "^3.150.0",
    "chromedriver": "^116.0.0",
    "nightwatch": "^3.1.3",
    ...
  },
...

//nightwatch.conf.js

const seleniumHost = 'localhost';
const chromeDriverPath = require('chromedriver').path;
const seleniumJarPath = require('@nightwatch/selenium-server').path;

module.exports = {
  src_folders: ['Test/test-cases'],
  custom_commands_path: [''],
  custom_assertions_path: [''],
  plugins: [],
  globals_path: '',
  output_folder: "reports",

  webdriver: {},

  test_workers: {
    enabled: true,
    workers: process.env.TEST_WORKERS || 2
  },

  test_settings: {
    default: {
      disable_error_log: false,
      launch_url: 'http://localhost',

      screenshots: {
        enabled: true,
        path: 'screenshots',
        on_failure: true
      },

      desiredCapabilities: {
        browserName: 'chrome'
      },

      webdriver: {
        start_process: true,
        server_path: seleniumJarPath ,
        host: seleniumHost,
        port: 4445,
        cli_args: {
            'webdriver.chrome.driver': chromeDriverPath,
        } 
      },

      test_runner: {
        type : 'mocha',
        options : {
          ui : 'bdd',
        }
      }
    },

  },

};

[anupamtomar]

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[gravityvi]

Hey @anupamtomar, I've raised an issue for this discussion over here #3894.