TS-JEST Mongoose/MongoDB incompatibility with ESM - node.js

Question

I am trying to get Node Express/Typescript app that uses Mongoose (which drags in Mongodb) to work with Jest. I know what the error is, I just can't find the correct configuration to get jest and mongodb to play nicely.
No matter what I try I either get:
chart-review-server2.0/node_modules/mongodb/src/bson.ts:1
({"Object.<anonymous>":function(module,exports,require,__dirname,__filename,jest){import type {
^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
or if I try to exclude it from the config using transformIgnorePatterns in my jest.config.js configuration like this: transformIgnorePatterns: ['node_modules/(?!(mongodb))'], I get:
RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
at Object.get [as ObjectId] (node_modules/mongodb/src/bson.ts:38:3)
at Object.get [as ObjectId] (node_modules/mongodb/src/bson.ts:38:3)...
My jest.config.js file looks like this:
module.exports = {
preset: "ts-jest",
testEnvironment: "node",
transformIgnorePatterns: [`node_modules/(?!(mongodb))`],
transform: {
'^.+\\.ts?$': 'ts-jest'
},
moduleDirectories: [ "node_modules", "src", "test"],
verbose: true,
testMatch: ["<rootDir>/test/*(*.)+(test).+(ts)"],
setupFiles: [
'dotenv/config'
],
};
my tsconfig.json looks like this:
{
"compilerOptions": {
"lib": [
"es6"
],
"module": "commonjs",
"target": "es5",
"rootDirs": [
"./src"
],
"outDir": "./dist",
"baseUrl": "./src",
"moduleResolution": "node",
"esModuleInterop": true,
"experimentalDecorators": true,
"emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
"resolveJsonModule": true,
"skipLibCheck": true,
"allowJs": true,
"downlevelIteration": true,
"isolatedModules": false,
"noEmit": true
},
"include": [
"src/**/*.ts",
"test/**/*.ts"
],
"exclude": [
"node_modules"
],
"types": [
"node"
],
"typeRoots": [
"node_modules/#types"
]
}
Thanks in advance for any replies, and for reading this.

Answer 1

Commenting out moduleDirectories on jest.config.js solved the issue for me. All credits to #jimmythecode, see his answer.