docs: Document jest's transformIgnorePatterns
option to avoid pitfall
#3523
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I found that many people have issues running tests with jest, receiving an error like
"unexpected token "import"
.The most common reason - as far as I can tell - are packages in their node_modules that contain untranspiled ES6 imports.
While we offer the
transpileDependencies
option, jest doesn't respect it, and rightfully so, since the issues solved by that option are often different ones (transpiling for browser compatibility).Instead, people have to adjust jest's
transformIgnorePatters
option when one of the packages they use has to be transformed bybabel-jest
orvue-jest
.