ESM Support

To use ts-jest with ESM support:

• Check ESM Jest documentation.
• Enable useESM true for ts-jest config.
• Include .ts in extensionsToTreatAsEsm Jest config option.
• Ensure that tsconfig has module with value for ESM, e.g. ES2015 or ES2020 etc...

ESM presets

There are also 3 presets to work with ESM.

Examples

Manual configuration

// jest.config.js
module.exports = {
  // [...]
  extensionsToTreatAsEsm: ['.ts'],
  globals: {
    'ts-jest': {
      useESM: true,
    },
  },
  moduleNameMapper: {
    '^(\\.{1,2}/.*)\\.js$': '$1',
  },
}

// package.json
{
  // [...]
  "jest": {
    "extensionsToTreatAsEsm": [".ts"],
    "globals": {
      "ts-jest": {
        "useESM": true
      }
    },
    "moduleNameMapper": {
      "^(\\.{1,2}/.*)\\.js$": "$1"
    }
  }
}

Use ESM presets

important

Starting from v28.0.0, ts-jest will gradually switch to esbuild/swc to transform ts to js. To make the transition smoothly, we introduce legacy presets as a fallback when the new codes don't work yet.

// jest.config.js
module.exports = {
  // [...]
  preset: 'ts-jest/presets/default-esm', // or other ESM presets
  globals: {
    'ts-jest': {
      useESM: true,
    },
  },
  moduleNameMapper: {
    '^(\\.{1,2}/.*)\\.js$': '$1',
  },
}

// package.json
{
  // [...]
  "jest": {
    "preset": "ts-jest/presets/default-esm", // or other ESM presets,
    "globals": {
      "ts-jest": {
        "useESM": true
      }
    },
    "moduleNameMapper": {
      "^(\\.{1,2}/.*)\\.js$": "$1"
    }
  }
}

Support .mts extension

To work with .mts extension, besides the requirement to run Jest and ts-jest in ESM mode, there are a few extra requirements to be met:

• package.json should contain "type": "module"
• A custom Jest resolver to resolve .mjs extension, see our simple one at https://github.com/kulshekhar/ts-jest/blob/main/e2e/native-esm-ts/mjs-resolver.ts
• tsconfig.json should at least contain these following options

// tsconfig.spec.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "Node16", // or "NodeNext"
    "target": "ESNext",
    "moduleResolution": "Node16", // or "NodeNext"
    "esModuleInterop": true
  }
}