Mocha beforeEach vs before execution

Question

I ran into a problem recently that I can\'t explain. I have alot of code in these tests so I\'m going to do my best to capture the idea here

I have tests that look li

Answer 1

Mocha's test runner explains this functionality the best in the Hooks section of the Mocha Test Runner.

From the Hooks section:

describe('hooks', function() {

    before(function() {
        // runs before all tests in this file regardless where this line is defined.
    });

    after(function() {
        // runs after all tests in this file
    });

    beforeEach(function() {
        // runs before each test in this block
    });

    afterEach(function() {
        // runs after each test in this block
    });

    // test cases
});

You can nest these routines within other describe blocks which can also have before/beforeEach routines.