Detecting Test Failures From Within Aftereach Hooks In Mocha

I'm trying to create an afterEach hook with logic that should only fire if the previous test failed. For example: it('some_test1', function(){ // something that could fail }) i

Solution 1:

You can use this.currentTest.state (not sure when this was introduced):

afterEach(function() {
  if (this.currentTest.state === 'failed') {
    // ...
  }
});

Solution 2:

You can do like the following

describe('something', function(){
  var ok = true;
  it('should one', function(){
    ok = true;
  })

  it('should two', function(){
    // say the test fails here
    ok = false;
  })

  afterEach(function(){
    if (!ok) this.test.error(newError('something went wrong'));
  })
})