UPDATED.
This error is coming up when I am making a pull request. There is a github workflow audit that runs checks on the pull request and it loads the test file from another repository.
- name: Run Audits
run: npx jest audits/ch-2 --json --outputFile=audits/ch-2.json --noStackTrace
Test suite failed to run
/Users/frankukachukwu/StudioProjects/covid-19-estimator-tksilicon-js/babel.config.js: Error while loading config - You appear to be using a native ECMAScript module configuration file, which is only supported when running Babel asynchronously.
How do I solve this issue?
SOLVED: For anyone who encounters this problem. This has got to do with Babel settings. The use of .mjs, cjs or js extension for the babel.config.extension. In my case where I was running LTE Node 12.6.2. I needed this configuration at the root of my directory babel.config.cjs. cjs is what is applicable for Nodejs when using "type"="module". See more about it here on babel docs.
module.exports = {
presets: [
[
'@babel/preset-env',
{
targets: {
node: 'current'
}
}
]
]
};
And jest.config.cjs at the root too.
In addition to "cjs" solution, I was able to resolve this issue by converting babel.config.js to babel.config.json:
{
"presets": [
[
"@babel/preset-env",
{
"targets": {
"node": "current"
}
}
],
"@babel/preset-typescript"
]
}
It worked for me to convert the file to json 👍🏻