run onPrepare function synchronously in Jasmine, before executing specs - node.js

Question

Hello stackoverflow community,
The task
I'm running Jasmine tests programmatically using jasmine.execute(). My task is to run onPrepare function, where I do some setup work like setting up reporters etc, and I need that function to be synchronous (has to be finished before running specs)
Approach #1
The first approach I tried was to just declare an async onPrepare function, which also includes the code for specifying reporters, and then do
await onPrepare();
await jasmine.execute();
Problem
In the result I get jasmine.getEnv() is not a function. I assume because getEnv() becomes available as .execute() is ran. So I understand this won't work
Approach #2
The next thing I tried was to create a helper file with my sync code, specify it in the config and run jasmine.execute();.
So, if simplified, I have
// conf.js
(async () => {
let Jasmine = require('jasmine');
let jasmine = new Jasmine();
let variables = require("./variables.json");
let {spawn} = require("child_process");
let childProcess = spawn(variables.webdriver);
console.log(`Webdriver started, pid: ${childProcess.pid}`);
jasmine.exitOnCompletion = false;
jasmine.loadConfig({
'spec_files': ['specs/*.spec.js'],
'helpers': ['on-jasmine-prepare.js'],
'stopSpecOnExpectationFailure': false,
'random': false,
})
const result = await jasmine.execute();
console.log('Test status:', result.overallStatus);
console.log('Closing library and webdriver process');
await library.close();
await childProcess.kill();
console.log('webdriver killed:', childProcess.killed);
})()
// on-jasmine-prepare.js
(async () => {
const {SpecReporter} = require("jasmine-spec-reporter");
const library = require("./library/library");
const variables = require("./variables.json");
const errorHandler = require("./modules/on-error-handler");
jasmine.getEnv().clearReporters();
jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL = 3 * 60 * 1000;
jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new SpecReporter({}))
global.library = new library.Library(variables.IP);
console.log('library instantiated')
await library.deleteSessions();
console.log('sessions deleted')
await library.launch(library.home);
console.log('home page launched')
jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(
errorHandler(library)
)
console.log('debugger reporter added' )
})();
Problem
The problem that I noticed that the helper file is executed asynchronously with the specs and I get a spec error before the helper function finishes (basically because of race condition). Below the output example, where you can see some console.log from onPrepare was ran after spec started
Webdriver started, pid: 40745
library instantiated
Jasmine started
sessions deleted
Example
✗ App is loaded (7 secs)
- Error: Session already exist
home page launched
debugger reporter added
The question
How do I run onPrepare function synchronously, before specs? Preferably natively (using only jasmine capabilities). Otherwise maybe using third party packages. I know it's possible because #protractor had this feature, however I couldn't back-engineer it
MacOS
node v16.13.2
jasmine v4.1.0
Thank you