BeforeAllHookError

The Cause

A beforeAll hook threw. Setup that failed means the run is not in the state the hooks describe, so the run is aborted rather than allowed to report failures against a fixture that was never built.

What to do

The message names the export and the file. Run with --debug to see the original error.

Two things worth knowing:

• Teardown still runs. The latch is armed before the callbacks, so any cleanup closures already returned, and every afterAll, run on close — even though setup failed.
• It runs once. A second request cannot re-run setup that half succeeded.

If the failure is expected and recoverable — a service that is sometimes not there — catch it inside the hook and use utils.warn instead of letting it propagate.