Testing React: Target Container is not a DOM element

For anyone else that was combing through the internet like I’ve been – looking for a solution to this when testing with Jest – I will back up the answer by @biphobe by saying Jest will cause this error to occur when you export something inside the same file that is calling ReactDOM.render.

In my case, I was exporting an object within my index.js where I was also calling ReactDOM.render. I removed this export and voila!

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