Cannot read property 'coverageData' of null when trying to generate code coverage

🐛 Bug Report

See reproduction repo for better understanding

When trying to generate a coverage with jest, the tests run as they should, but no coverage data is collected and there’s a ‘Cannot read property ‘coverageData’ of null’ error in the console. This is likely because jest right now can’t work with the unique folder structure that we have on our project (see the reproduction repo).

The folder where the package.json and node_modules are right next to the folder where all the source files are. When the file to test and the test itself is in the same folder as the node_modules the coverage data is collected perfectly, however when it is in the folder next to the folder with the node_modules, it display the error mentioned in the first paragraph.

Feel free to close this if it’s not a bug with jest, but at this point I cannot think of anything else that could be wrong here (other than our legacy folder structure).

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

• checkout this repo

• run the commands in the project’s README

• see the console for the error message

Expected behavior

Expected the coverage data to be collected and put out to the console.

Link to repl or repo (highly encouraged)

reproduction repo link

Run npx envinfo --preset jest

Paste the results here:

System:
    OS: macOS 10.14.1
    CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7360U CPU @ 2.30GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 10.15.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.1/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.12.3 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.7.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.1/bin/npm
  npmPackages:
    jest: ^24.1.0 => 24.1.0 

[apoorvkk]

@wfortin As a short term and quick solution, I rolled back to jest@23.6.0 and I am able to see coverage on all files and run tests as per normal. Once there is a fix, I will update Jest to v24. Note that if you do rollback, make sure to use setupTestFrameworkScriptFile (deprecated in v24) instead of setupFilesAfterEnv for your jest setup file location. See https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/7758#issuecomment-459052457

[wfortin]

Is there any workaround while we wait for an official fix for this?