NODE_ENV must currently be set to "test"

Software version

OS: Debian Sid Node: v11.13.0 NPM: 6.7.0

What did you do to get the error?

When NODE_ENV is set to anything but “test”, the babel environment settings required to run the tests are not applied and the babel transpilation fails.

NODE_ENV=development;quasar test --unit jest returns

    /tmp/quasar-test/test/jest/__tests__/App.spec.js:1
    ({"Object.<anonymous>":function(module,exports,require,__dirname,__filename,global,jest){import "core-js/modules/es6.array.find";
                                                                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    SyntaxError: Unexpected string

      at ScriptTransformer._transformAndBuildScript (node_modules/@jest/transform/build/ScriptTransformer.js:471:17)
      at ScriptTransformer.transform (node_modules/@jest/transform/build/ScriptTransformer.js:513:25)

What were you expecting?

Tests to run without babel errors.

What steps did you take, to get the error?

export NODE_ENV=development
quasar create sample -b dev
cd sample
quasar ext add @quasar/testing
quasar test --unit jest

Possible solution

babel.config.js

const fs = require('fs-extra')
let extend

const env = {
  'plugins': ['dynamic-import-node'],
  'presets': [
    [
      '@babel/preset-env',
      {
        'modules': 'commonjs',
        'targets': {
          'node': 'current'
        }
      }
    ]
  ]
}

/**
 * The .babelrc file has been created to assist Jest for transpiling.
 * You should keep your application's babel rules in this file.
 */

if (fs.existsSync('./.babelrc')) {
  extend = './.babelrc'
}

module.exports = {
  presets: [
    '@quasar/babel-preset-app'
  ],
  extends: extend,
  env: {
    development: env,
    test: env
  }
}

.babelrc

{
  "plugins": ["@babel/plugin-syntax-dynamic-import"]
}

[nothingismagick]

@hawkeye64 suggests: Use QENV

  "scripts": {
    "dev": "QENV=development quasar dev",
    "test-dev": "QENV=test quasar dev",
    "combined": "QENV=development+test quasar dev",
    "build": "QENV=production quasar build"
  },

https://github.com/quasarframework/app-extension-qenv

[RichAyotte]

Would there be an environment that testing shouldn’t be run in? If not, this could be a nice catch all:

process.env.NODE_ENV || process.env.QUSAR_TEST || process.env.QENV || 'test'

Order is debatable of course.