[CRA v5] Jest + React-markdown = Must use import to load ES Module

Describe the bug

Running a CRA test rendering react-markdown leads to an error message “Must use import to load ES Module:”

A (somewhat) related issue in https://github.com/remarkjs/react-markdown/issues/635 seems to redirect to https://gist.github.com/sindresorhus/a39789f98801d908bbc7ff3ecc99d99c, which in turn states “Create React App doesn’t yet fully support ESM. I would recommend opening an issue on their repo with the problem you have encountered. One known issue is #10933.”

/cc @ChristianMurphy

Did you try recovering your dependencies?

Yes

Which terms did you search for in User Guide?

esm

Environment

Windows

Steps to reproduce

Full repro case is available at

1. Clone https://github.com/nulltoken/repro-react-markdown-cra-esm
2. run yarn test

Output of yarn test can be reviewed at https://github.com/nulltoken/repro-react-markdown-cra-esm/runs/4841320780?check_suite_focus=true

Expected behavior

I’d very much like the test not to fail because of an import issue 😕

Actual behavior

Reproducible demo

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[KieranDotCo]

Not sure if this helps but I managed to get my react-markdown tests to run with CRA by modifying the test command

react-scripts test --maxWorkers=2 --transformIgnorePatterns \"node_modules/(?!react-markdown)/\" --env=jsdom

[martenmatrix]

@jcgentr and @esetnik answers didn’t work for me. However, they pointed me in the correct direction. Especially because those solutions work for projects created with create-react-app. I needed to edit the regex pattern to the following.

"jest": {
    "transformIgnorePatterns": [
      "[/\\\\]node_modules[/\\\\](?!(react-markdown|vfile|vfile-message|markdown-table|unist-.*|unified|bail|is-plain-obj|trough|remark-.*|rehype-.*|html-void-elements|hast-util-.*|zwitch|hast-to-hyperscript|hastscript|web-namespaces|mdast-util-.*|escape-string-regexp|micromark.*|decode-named-character-reference|character-entities|property-information|hast-util-whitespace|space-separated-tokens|comma-separated-tokens|pretty-bytes|ccount|mdast-util-gfm|gemoji)).+\\.(js|jsx|mjs|cjs|ts|tsx)$"
    ]
  }

Basically, I just added these patterns:

• rehype-*
• hast-util-.*
• mdast-util-gfm
• web-namespaces
• zwitch
• hast-to-hyperscript
• html-void-elements
• gemoji

If running the tests still fails for you because Jest encountered an unexpected token, just try to add the folder, where the error occurred, from the node_module folder. Unfortunately, sometimes the error message does not directly point to the correct package, which should be transformed. For example, I always got an error message which pointed to the mdast-util-gfm-autolink-literal package, however, the error actually happened because mdast-util-gfm was not transformed. Just try to google the error. 😃