How to resolve "Cannot use import statement outside a module" in jest
Also using Babel, Typescript and Jest. Had the same failure, driving me crazy for hours.Ended up creating a new babel.config.js file specifically for the tests. Had a large .babelrc that wasn't getting picked up by jest no matter what i did to it. Main app still uses the .babelrc as this overrides babel.config.js files.
Install jest, ts-jest and babel-jest:
npm i jest ts-jest babel-jestbabel.config.js (only used by jest)
module.exports = {presets: ['@babel/preset-env']}jest.config.js
module.exports = { preset: 'ts-jest', transform: { '^.+\\.(ts|tsx)?$': 'ts-jest', "^.+\\.(js|jsx)$": "babel-jest", }};package.json
"scripts": { "test": "jest"
Use Babel to transpile those JS Modules and you'll be able to write your tests with es6.
Install Babel/preset-env
npm i -D @babel/preset-env
Create a babel configuration file with the preset
//babel.config.jsmodule.exports = {presets: ['@babel/preset-env']}
I solved this by migrating the .babelrc file to babel.config.js! Shocker.