Cannot set custom jest.config.{js,ts} even with --config flag in test CLI command

Current Behavior

The test command’s --config, -c flags throw a nondescript error when passed any value.

$ yarn run tsdx test --config=./jest.config.js --env=jsdom
...Usage...
argv.config.match is not a function

This also doesn’t load the test command in watch mode as the documentation specified.

Expected behavior

Either having a jest.config.{js,ts} in the project root or specifying one via the config flag in your tsdx test should actually be loaded on setup.

Suggested solution(s)

Quickfix: Just move all your configuration into package.json under the “jest” key.

Long term fix: I can’t seem to find the bug first thing in index.ts, but this is definitely where things are going wrong.

I will update this issue as I study it more!

Additional context

The example bug repo is available here.

Your environment

Software	Version(s)
TSDX	0.7.1
TypeScript	3.5.2
Browser	NA
yarn	1.15.2
Operating System	Ubuntu 16.04

[agilgur5]

Ran into this myself during some testing (and, notably, TSDX itself uses jest --config) and did some further investigation.

This same error, argv.config.match is not a function also occurs with CRA (tried it myself), as it uses the same code for config: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/687c4ebf211ad30238f2d59e063b8171e015bfc7/packages/react-scripts/scripts/test.js#L73-L82 (also https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript/issues/396)

Root cause is actually Jest’s very bare programmatic API: https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/5048

Until Jest’s programmatic API becomes better, I do think checking if argv already has a config and merging that in would be optimal. Currently package.json.jest and jest.config.js aren’t deep merged, just shallow merged.

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Also this is related to #100 as jest.config.js was previously not read at all, by default or with --config until #229

[Aidurber]

@SeedyROM @jaredpalmer I’m taking a quick look at this and I’m unsure what would be the correct fix.

The easiest is to check if the args already contain a config (here), if it does then don’t push the tsdx config.

Or do we merge in the contents of the supplied config with the tsdx config? It would probably need to be a deep merge if you need to add in custom transforms into your jest config such as CSS transforms.