TypeScript Config option

The tsconfig option allows you to define which tsconfig JSON file to use. An inline compiler options object can also be specified instead of a file path.

By default ts-jest will try to find a tsconfig.json in your project. If it cannot find one, it will use the default TypeScript compiler options; except, ES2015 is used as target instead of ES5.

If you need to use defaults and force ts-jest to use the defaults even if there is a tsconfig.json in your project, you can set this option to false.

Examples

Path to a tsconfig file

The path should be relative to the current working directory where you start Jest from. You can also use <rootDir> in the path to start from the project root dir.

// jest.config.js
module.exports = {
  // [...]
  globals: {
    'ts-jest': {
      tsconfig: 'tsconfig.test.json',
    },
  },
}

// package.json
{
  // [...]
  "jest": {
    "globals": {
      "ts-jest": {
        "tsconfig": "tsconfig.test.json"
      }
    }
  }
}

Inline compiler options

Refer to the TypeScript compiler options for reference. It's basically the same object you'd put in your tsconfig.json's compilerOptions.

// jest.config.js
module.exports = {
  // [...]
  globals: {
    'ts-jest': {
      tsconfig: {
        importHelpers: true,
      },
    },
  },
}

// package.json
{
  // [...]
  "jest": {
    "globals": {
      "ts-jest": {
        "tsconfig": {
          "importHelpers": true
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Disable auto-lookup

By default ts-jest will try to find a tsconfig.json in your project. But you may not want to use it at all and keep TypeScript default options. You can achieve this by setting tsconfig to false.

// jest.config.js
module.exports = {
  // [...]
  globals: {
    'ts-jest': {
      tsconfig: false,
    },
  },
}

// package.json
{
  // [...]
  "jest": {
    "globals": {
      "ts-jest": {
        "tsconfig": false
      }
    }
  }
}