Jest: Could not find source file error

Occasionally I've been seeing the following error when running my Jest test suite.

> @module/module@1.2.9 test C:\_Development\project
> jest

 FAIL  __tests__/resources/project.router.test.ts 
  ● Test suite failed to run

    Could not find source file: 'C:\_Development\project\__tests__\resources\project.actions.test.ts'.

      at getValidSourceFile (node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:135637:29)
      at Object.getSemanticDiagnostics (node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:135859:36)
      at doTypeChecking (node_modules/ts-jest/dist/compiler/language-service.js:11:35)
      at node_modules/ts-jest/dist/compiler/language-service.js:96:25
          at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
      at compileFn (node_modules/ts-jest/dist/compiler/language-service.js:94:26)
      at Object.compile (node_modules/ts-jest/dist/compiler/instance.js:90:25)
      at TsJestTransformer.process (node_modules/ts-jest/dist/ts-jest-transformer.js:94:41)
      at ScriptTransformer.transformSource (node_modules/@jest/transform/build/ScriptTransformer.js:481:35)
      at ScriptTransformer._transformAndBuildScript (node_modules/@jest/transform/build/ScriptTransformer.js:586:40)

The source files always exist in the right location - it seems like actually Jest isnt always calling the real file, but grabbing it from the cache?

The solution is to pass the following arguemnts

jest --clearCache

Obviously, alot of the time, we arn't running Jest directly, its in our package.json. In that case you can pass in an extra -- to tell the npm runner to pass the argument down into the underlying call.

npm run test -- --clearCache

Hope this helps!

Comments

[Ameet Kaustav]

Thank you for posting this, @smarthomedan. This helped me too!

Maybe it's just me, but on jest@27.5.1 with @angular-builders/jest@12.1.2, I get the following warning:

Support for camel case arguments has been deprecated and will be removed in a future major version.
Use '--clear-cache' instead of '--clearCache'.

You might want to update the post for versions of jest which have deprecated support for camelCase arguments.

For older versions of jest, use the --clearCache argument.
For newer versions of jest, use the --clear-cache argument.

[Vinícius Vedovotto]

u saved me, thks!

[Ezequiel E. Tejada]

Thank you Dan!

[Crhistian de Oliveira]

Thank you! That just did the trick

[Trevor]

Coming at you in early 2022, glad you posted this. 💯