Jest: How to clear the cache
I recently was in a weird situation where my (Jest/CLI) tests were referencing a function that was no longer part of my code - I had just refactored it.
Apparently Jest has some kind of cache that caused the issue, running npx jest --clearCache solved it for me.
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