jest [Bug]: Jest fails with localstorage error with node 25.2.0

Version

30.2.0

Steps to reproduce

Reproduction steps:

Clone https://github.com/shadowspawn/jest-local-storage
using node 25.2.0...
npm install
npx jest

Expected behavior

I expect the tests to run and pass.

Actual behavior

% npx jest
 FAIL  ./index.test.js
  ● Test suite failed to run

    SecurityError: Cannot initialize local storage without a `--localstorage-file` path

      at new NodeEnvironment (node_modules/jest-environment-node/build/index.js:110:52)

Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 total
Tests:       0 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        0.029 s
Ran all test suites.

Additional context

I am using testEnvironment: "node".

There was a change of behaviour in https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/60351

This failed the node CITGM test for Commander: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/60677#issuecomment-3518940754

After reproducing, I opened an issue for Commander: https://github.com/tj/commander.js/issues/2451

And then added a reproduction here!

Environment

System:
    OS: macOS 26.1
    CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M1 Pro
  Binaries:
    Node: 25.2.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
    npm: 11.6.2 - /usr/local/bin/npm
    bun: 1.2.1 - /opt/homebrew/bin/bun
    Deno: 2.1.7 - /opt/homebrew/bin/deno
  npmPackages:
    jest: ^30.2.0 => 30.2.0

Nov 12 '25 06:11 shadowspawn

i fixed it by:

npm install --save-dev jest-environment-jsdom
adding to jest.config.ts: testEnvironment: "jsdom",

Nov 12 '25 09:11 orianhexight

(In my case, I am testing in node environment. I will add that to the context in description, thanks.)

Nov 12 '25 09:11 shadowspawn

From the original PR's thread, I can see that the introduced feature/issue is still experimental and not really meant for stable userland. Having said that, one folk did say this one is worthy of semver-major so there's that.

There could be further modifications to this one in Node.js runtime so I'm not sure what's to put out as a guardrail, might be a try-catch when accessing globalThis attribute?

Nov 12 '25 15:11 hainenber

This solved it for me: I set the localStorage file path via NODE_OPTIONS like this: NODE_OPTIONS='--localstorage-file=./jest-storage' jest

Update: For me this issue started because we were using "latest" as version for node in the pipelines. This caused node version 25.2.0 to be used, which ultimately caused the issue. That error throwing was added here #60351