/**
                 * if though we check for an execution context before executing a command we
                 * can technically still run into the situation (especially if the command
                 * contains multiple interaction with the page and is long) where the execution
                 * context gets destroyed. For these cases handle page transitions gracefully
                 * by repeating the command.
                 */

    loginViaAPI() {
        let response = browser.call(() => {
            const reqHost = mainSel.host;
            const reqBody = mainSel.bodyObj;
            console.log('HOST_______' + reqHost + '  BODY________' + JSON.stringify(reqBody))
            return chai.request(reqHost)
                .post('/web_api/auth/sign_in')
                .send(reqBody)
        })
        browser.execute(
            (key, value) => { return localStorage.setItem(key, value); },
            'client',
            response.header.client
        )
        ....
    }