Node v13 / Jest / ES6 — native support for modules without babel or esm

Question

Is it possible to test ES6 Modules with Jest without esm or babel? Since node v13 supports es6 natively have tried:

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Answer 1

In addition to @Radovan Kuka's answer, here's how to run Jest with ES modules, using npx:

"test:monitoring": "npx --node-arg=--experimental-vm-modules jest -f monitoring.test.js --detectOpenHandles",

The benefit is that one doesn't need to provide the absolute node_modules path.