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Error in unit tests

See original GitHub issue

After creating a project with this template, the tests don’t run:

$ npm test

> chatbot@1.1.0 test /project
> jest

 FAIL  tests/handler.test.js
  ● Test suite failed to run

    /project/tests/handler.test.js:1
    ({"Object.<anonymous>":function(module,exports,require,__dirname,__filename,global,jest){import * as handler from '../handler';
                                                                                             ^^^^^^

    SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

      at new Script (vm.js:51:7)
          at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
          at new Promise (<anonymous>)

Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 total
Tests:       0 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        0.531s
Ran all test suites.
npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

thghcommented, Mar 28, 2018

I think I messed up the .babelrc file. Works fine now 😀

This project looks promising, will try it out next time!

0reactions

jayaircommented, Apr 30, 2018

@jeff-kilbride I see. Thanks for reporting back.

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