nestjs rendering error after connecting webpack with hotreload - nestjs

Question

I have followed the tutorial for nestJs and have a basic working app. After that, I tried the tutorial to connect my app with webpack and hotreloading and am now presented with the following error:
import { Entity, Column, PrimaryGeneratedColumn } from 'typeorm';
SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:703:23)
I have tried looking at similar errors and cannot find anything conclusive other than hints here and there to something that is not compiling in my test files - any direction would be greatly appreciated.
Using Node 12, npm 6.9.0
Package JSON below:
"scripts": {
"build": "tsc -p tsconfig.build.json",
"format": "prettier --write \"src/**/*.ts\" \"test/**/*.ts\"",
"start": "node dist/server",
"webpack": "webpack --config webpack.config.js",
"start:dev": "concurrently --handle-input \"wait-on dist/main.js && nodemon\" \"tsc -w -p tsconfig.build.json\" ",
"start:debug": "nodemon --config nodemon-debug.json",
"prestart:prod": "rimraf dist && npm run build",
"start:prod": "node dist/main.js",
"lint": "tslint -p tsconfig.json -c tslint.json",
"test": "jest",
"test:watch": "jest --watch",
"test:cov": "jest --coverage",
"test:debug": "node --inspect-brk -r tsconfig-paths/register -r ts-node/register node_modules/.bin/jest --runInBand",
"test:e2e": "jest --config ./test/jest-e2e.json"
},
"dependencies": {
"#nestjs/common": "^6.0.4",
"#nestjs/core": "^6.0.4",
"#nestjs/microservices": "^6.0.4",
"#nestjs/platform-express": "^6.0.4",
"#nestjs/swagger": "^3.0.2",
"#nestjs/typeorm": "^6.1.1",
"#nestjs/websockets": "^6.0.4",
"mysql": "^2.17.1",
"reflect-metadata": "0.1.13",
"rimraf": "2.6.3",
"rxjs": "6.4.0",
"swagger-ui-express": "^4.0.4",
"typeorm": "^0.2.17"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#nestjs/testing": "6.1.1",
"#types/express": "^4.16.1",
"#types/jest": "24.0.11",
"#types/node": "11.13.4",
"#types/supertest": "2.0.7",
"concurrently": "^4.1.0",
"jest": "24.7.1",
"nodemon": "1.18.11",
"prettier": "1.17.0",
"supertest": "4.0.2",
"ts-jest": "24.0.2",
"ts-loader": "^6.0.1",
"ts-node": "8.1.0",
"tsconfig-paths": "3.8.0",
"tslint": "5.16.0",
"typescript": "3.4.3",
"wait-on": "^3.2.0",
"webpack": "^4.32.2",
"webpack-cli": "^3.3.2",
"webpack-node-externals": "^1.7.2"
},
"jest": {
"moduleFileExtensions": [
"js",
"json",
"ts"
],
"rootDir": "src",
"testRegex": ".spec.ts$",
"transform": {
"^.+\\.(t|j)s$": "ts-jest"
},
"collectCoverageFrom": [
"**/*.(t|j)s"
],
"coverageDirectory": "../coverage",
"testEnvironment": "node"
}

Answer 1

this is probably the tsconfig, are you using:
"module": "commonjs" In the compilerOptions ? When you working with nodejs this is the option that you have to use

Answer 2

I finally posted this on NestJS repo and received a response for those interested:
https://github.com/nestjs/nest/issues/2389