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babel-jest

Jest plugin to use babel for transformation.


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What is babel-jest?

The babel-jest package is a Jest plugin that makes it easy to use Babel to transform your JavaScript tests. It automatically hooks Babel into Jest and compiles files before running them, allowing you to use the latest JavaScript features and syntax in your test files.

What are babel-jest's main functionalities?

Transforming test files with Babel

This configuration in Jest's setup file tells Jest to use babel-jest for transforming any files that match the regex pattern (in this case, any JavaScript files) before running the tests.

module.exports = {
  transform: {
    '^.+\\.js$': 'babel-jest'
  }
};

Using modern JavaScript syntax in tests

With babel-jest, you can write tests using modern JavaScript features like async/await without worrying about compatibility issues.

test('async/await works', async () => {
  const data = await fetchData();
  expect(data).toBe('expected data');
});

Custom Babel configuration

babel-jest allows you to specify a custom Babel configuration to tailor the transformation process to your project's needs.

{
  'presets': [['@babel/preset-env', { 'targets': { 'node': 'current' } }]],
  'plugins': ['@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties']
}

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babel-jest

Babel jest plugin

Usage

If you are already using jest-cli, add babel-jest and it will automatically compile JavaScript code using Babel.

yarn add --dev babel-jest @babel/core

If you would like to write your own preprocessor, uninstall and delete babel-jest and set the config.transform option to your preprocessor.

Setup

Note: this step is only required if you are using babel-jest with additional code preprocessors.

To explicitly define babel-jest as a transformer for your JavaScript code, map .js files to the babel-jest module. Typescript files are also supported.

"transform": {
  "\\.[jt]sx?$": "babel-jest"
},

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