Jest fails with “Unexpected token *” on import statement

Question

Why does Jest fail with \"Unexpected token *\" on a simple import statement...

Error log:

Admin@Admin-PC MINGW32 /d/project (master)
$ npm         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar issue on a React + Typescript app.

The first mistake I made was to define the jest.config.js as jest.config.ts

Running on Node v12.latest

Then the configuration that worked for me were the following:

// jest.config.js

module.exports = {
  preset: "ts-jest",
  testEnvironment: "node",
  roots: ["./src"],
  transform: { "\\.ts$": ["ts-jest"] },
  testRegex: "(/__tests__/.*|(\\.|/)(test|spec))\\.tsx?$",
  moduleFileExtensions: ["ts", "tsx", "js", "jsx", "json", "node"],
  globals: {
    "ts-jest": {
      tsConfig: {
        // allow js in typescript
        allowJs: true,
      },
    },
  },
};

// tsconfig.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es5",
    "lib": ["dom", "dom.iterable", "esnext"],
    "allowJs": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
    "strict": true,
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
    "module": "esnext",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "resolveJsonModule": true,
    "isolatedModules": true,
    "noEmit": true,
    "jsx": "react",
    "baseUrl": "."
  },
  "include": ["src"],
  "exclude": ["node_modules", "**/*.spec.ts"]
}

// package.json
"devDependencies": {
    "@types/jest": "^26.0.5",
    "jest": "^26.1.0",
    "ts-jest": "^26.1.3"
}