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Allow context in before hook

See original GitHub issue

It would be useful to have context available in before hooks, so that messy workarounds like in https://github.com/avajs/ava/issues/1542 aren’t required. It’s useful in cases where you’re doing integration testing and are downloading several URLs whose content will be used across multiple tests.

Without being able to share context in before hooks you would need to resort to the workaround, or download the page for each test each time, even though the content doesn’t change between tests.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:8 (6 by maintainers)

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novemberborncommented, Feb 6, 2018

The functionality has landed in #1657 but it still needs to be documented. @kugtong33 is awesome and on the case though!

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kugtong33commented, Jan 26, 2018

@novemberborn

These are the steps of what I understood about the problem

create the context object before passing it to the before hook
clone context using Object.create then pass it to the beforeEach hook if there is one, else pass it to the test so that each test will have their own clone of context