babel-node should add '.ts', '.tsx' as a default extensions to hook into

Bug Report

Current Behavior

I’m running jasmine tests in babel-node in my front-end typescript project, and I got

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

It took me four hours to understand that *.ts files aren’t included by default in babel-node. Google/SE was no help.

As Typescript is supported by babel since a while back, it seems resonable that babel-node should hook into ‘.ts’-files by default? Perhaps ‘.tsx’ too.

See https://babeljs.io/docs/en/next/babel-node.html

Input Code DOESN’T WORK package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "test": "npx babel-node spec/run.ts",
  },

DOES WORK package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "test": "npx babel-node -x '.ts' spec/run.ts",
  },

[dilyanpalauzov]

I edited the comment above several times.

[stnor]

@dilyanpalauzov no. It’s what @nicolo-ribaudo ref’ed…