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

The reason of confusion is lies in the documentation of mocha. You can find in mocha:

Tests can appear before, after, or interspersed with your hooks. Hooks will run in the order they are defined, as appropriate; all before() hooks run (once), then any beforeEach() hooks, tests, any afterEach() hooks, and finally after() hooks (once).

Discussed hooks before and beforeEach are executed right before all or each it respectively - there are no way to execute it before describe section.

Here you can find answer of the #1 contributor to the mocha's master branch to the idea add something like beforeDescribe hook.

I think you should look at the --delay mocha option.