Running a set of actions before every test-file in mocha

Question

I\'ve started recently working with mocha to test my expressjs server. My tests are separated to multiple files and most of them contain some duplicated segments (Mostly before

Answer 1

Why not mocha -r or even using mocha.opts?

Have your common file in, say, init.js and then run

mocha -r `./init`

Which will cause mocha to run and load ./init.js before loading any of the mocha test files.

You could also put it in mocha.opts inside your tests directory, and have its contents be

--require ./init