Let Metro handle import/export instead of Babel (#1772)

* Let Metro handle import/export instead of Babel

* Keep using Babel for ESM->CJS in tests

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/babel.config.js b/babel.config.js
index a38edf1d6..0baec0c3c 100644
--- a/babel.config.js
+++ b/babel.config.js
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 module.exports = function (api) {
   api.cache(true)
+  const isTestEnv = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'test'
   return {
     presets: [
       [
         'babel-preset-expo',
         {
           lazyImports: true,
+          native: {
+            // Disable ESM -> CJS compilation because Metro takes care of it.
+            // However, we need it in Jest tests since those run without Metro.
+            disableImportExportTransform: !isTestEnv,
+          },
         },
       ],
     ],