Framework wide verification beforeEach / afterEach hooks

[canny]

Pact-JS has beforeEach / afterEach state shooks, but they're a bit of a hack. One problem with this hack is that the afterEach hook is called before the state teardown hooks (which is a bit unintuitive).

It would be neat if the pact core had some reserved state names that it always called before / after each test, meaning that the order could be more easily reasoned about. This would give the beforeEach / afterEach functionality to all pact libraries, too.

https://pact.canny.io/admin/board/feature-requests/p/framework-wide-verification-beforeeach-aftereach-hooks

[canny]

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Matt Fellows - February 24, 2023

Good call. This would make it easier to explain the lifecycle across the client libraries in a consistent and stable way.