babel-jest can't handle template strings within a require statement in with --watch flag

🐛 Bug Report

When running require within a block of code that contains a template string (e.g. require(images/${imageURL})), babel-jest fails to resolve the template string properly when running jest --watch. It works fine without the --watch flag.

To Reproduce

Run jest --watch with babel-jest set as the transformer on a file that contains the following:

const ImageLink = ({ linkPath, linkLabel, imageSource }: ImageLinkProps) => (
  <Link to={linkPath}>
    <img alt={`Navigation link to ${linkLabel}`} src={require(`$images/${imageSource}`)} />
    <span>{linkLabel}</span>
  </Link>
);

Expected behavior

The above code is valid and works without issue when transformed by babel-jest without the --watch flag. I expect it to work without issue with --watch set as well. However, I currently get the following error from jest (which in turn doesn’t run, due to a non-existent file):

Could not locate module $images/${imageSource} mapped as:
/home/thisissami/code/s2sFrontEnd/static/images/${imageSource}.

Please check your configuration for these entries:
{
  "moduleNameMapper": {
    "/^\$images(.*)/": "/home/thisissami/code/s2sFrontEnd/static/images$1"
  },
  "resolver": null
}

This clearly means that babel-jest is not resolving the template string within the require, and is rather treating the template string as a normal string. When changing the above code to the following, babel-jest transforms without issue with the --watch mode:

const ImageLink = ({ linkPath, linkLabel, imageSource }: ImageLinkProps) => {
  const src = `$images/${imageSource}`;

  return (
    <Link to={linkPath}>
      <img alt={`Navigation link to ${linkLabel}`} src={require(src)} />
      <span>{linkLabel}</span>
    </Link>
  );
};

Run npx envinfo --preset jest

Paste the results here:

  System:
    OS: Linux 4.15 Pop!_OS 18.04 LTS
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 10.8.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.8.0/bin/node
    npm: 6.4.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.8.0/bin/npm
  npmPackages:
    jest: ^23.5.0 => 23.6.0

[JJBocanegra]

Using --watchAll works correctly.

[SimenB]

You can verify the above by running jest --only-changed (or jest -o for short) which does the same thing --watch does when it comes to VCS