I think there's a bit of ambiguity in the community about what "Page Object" really means. As a holdover from Selenium, when you actually had a class to represent each page and the test had to use a

new MyPageObject

constructor to execute, I very much don't like. However, importing/exporting JSON objects in something like a

myPageTestIds.js

so you can call

myPageTestIds.locator

is great!

Do you have an example of this you could share?

sure, just off the cuff and in pseduocode, let's say you have an eCommerce site. you want to test your shopping cart. you could create a file called

shoppingCartTestIds.js

that lives, really anywhere your team decides. Inside of it you might have

export const shoppingCartIds = {
  checkoutButton: "locator",
  itemsInCartTable: "locator",
  paymentInformation: "locator",
}

then in your

testCart.spec

file you can

import shoppingCartIds from /path/to/shoppingCartTestIds.js

and use

cy.get(shoppingCartIds.checkoutButton).click()

etc

Awesome. Thanks!