Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. I have tried googling for the solution but no luck so far. .babelrc is local to your project so it won't be applied to node_modules in Jest. Then we'll add our start script in file package.json. The Babel unexpected token import when running mocha tests. Create a jest.config.js file in the root directory of your project. This is applicable to other things apart from sequelize. By clicking Accept all cookies, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Can someone explain why this point is giving me 8.3V? So, you have just learned that it is better to use specific imports instead of the { destruct } syntatx. In other words, they have no way to know what a Module file type truly is apart from a JavaScript type! stay frosty. I'm trying to set up unit testing in Vue using Jest. I'm sorry to not put direct code on this post, it would make things unclear. Had to SSH into CircleCI to fix, which I didn't know was an option and is a handy debugging tool. it's not plain JavaScript. Right now, the only way to do that is to either create a HTTP content-type on the server of "module" for any file with a .mjs extension and change your file extension on module JavaScript files to ".mjs", or have an HTML script tag with type="module" added to any external