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

I found a similar issue. The documentation is misleading because "before this block" means (to me at least) "before this describe section". Meanwhile it means "before any describe section". Check this example:

describe('outer describe', function () {
    beforeEach(function () {
        console.log('outer describe - beforeEach');
    });

    describe('inner describe 1', function () {
        before(function () {
            console.log('inner describe 1 - before');
        });

    describe('inner describe 2', function () {
        beforeEach(function () {
            console.log('inner describe 2 - beforeEach');
        });
 });

 // output will be:
 // inner describe 1 - before
 // outer describe - beforeEach
 // inner describe 2 - beforeEach

It seems it doesn't matter where in your hierarchy you put the before - it will run before any describe and not before its containing describe.