# mocha/no-exports

📝 Disallow exports from test files.

💼 This rule is enabled in the ✅ `recommended` [config](https://github.com/lo1tuma/eslint-plugin-mocha#configs).

💡 This rule is manually fixable by [editor suggestions](https://eslint.org/docs/latest/use/core-concepts#rule-suggestions).

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💡 This rule provides suggestions when it can preserve a local declaration or remove a plain local export list without guessing a replacement structure.

Test files should stay focused on tests. If a test file also exports values, it often means helper or library code should move to a separate file.

## Rule Details

This rule flags ESM export statements when the same file also uses a Mocha function.

The following patterns are considered warnings:

```js
beforeEach(function () {/* ... */});
export default 'foo';

afterEach(function () {/* ... */});
export const foo = 'bar';
```

These patterns would not be considered warnings:

```js
describe(function () {/* ... */});

it('works', function () {/* ... */});

beforeEach(function () {/* ... */});

afterEach(function () {/* ... */});
```

## When Not To Use It

Do not use this rule with Mocha's [`exports` interface](https://mochajs.org/#exports).