If you want to control where Jest looks for tests, you can simply add a “jest” section to package.json, and set “testPathDirs”. There are a whole bunch of other options in the documentation1
{
"name": "books",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "import-editions.tsx",
"scripts": {
"test": "jest"
},
"jest": {
"testPathDirs": ["dist/__test__/"]
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"bluebird": "^3.4.1",
"lodash": "^4.13.1",
"rethinkdb": "^2.3.2"
},
"devDependencies": {
"jest-cli": "^13.2.3"
}
}
- https://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/api.html#testpathdirs-array-string [↩]