diff --git a/packages/react-dev-utils/package.json b/packages/react-dev-utils/package.json
index 54606f33fe8..6b4e716749c 100644
--- a/packages/react-dev-utils/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-dev-utils/package.json
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
     "text-table": "0.2.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "jest": "20.0.4"
+    "jest": "22.0.5"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "test": "jest"
diff --git a/packages/react-error-overlay/package.json b/packages/react-error-overlay/package.json
index 9808a9da81d..e4ea78f36de 100644
--- a/packages/react-error-overlay/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-error-overlay/package.json
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     "eslint-plugin-react": "7.1.0",
     "flow-bin": "^0.63.1",
     "html-entities": "1.2.1",
-    "jest": "20.0.4",
+    "jest": "22.0.5",
     "jest-fetch-mock": "1.2.1",
     "object-assign": "4.1.1",
     "promise": "8.0.1",
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/package.json b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
index d49640bd3fb..f5a3af2739d 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     "autoprefixer": "7.1.6",
     "babel-core": "6.26.0",
     "babel-eslint": "7.2.3",
-    "babel-jest": "20.0.3",
+    "babel-jest": "22.0.4",
     "babel-loader": "7.1.2",
     "babel-preset-react-app": "^3.1.0",
     "babel-runtime": "6.26.0",
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     "file-loader": "1.1.5",
     "fs-extra": "3.0.1",
     "html-webpack-plugin": "2.29.0",
-    "jest": "20.0.4",
+    "jest": "22.0.5",
     "object-assign": "4.1.1",
     "postcss-flexbugs-fixes": "3.2.0",
     "postcss-loader": "2.0.8",
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/scripts/utils/createJestConfig.js b/packages/react-scripts/scripts/utils/createJestConfig.js
index b4c2cfa5ea9..4c2e6f1d002 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/scripts/utils/createJestConfig.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/scripts/utils/createJestConfig.js
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ module.exports = (resolve, rootDir, isEjecting) => {
     'coverageReporters',
     'coverageThreshold',
     'snapshotSerializers',
+    'watchPathIgnorePatterns',
   ];
   if (overrides) {
     supportedKeys.forEach(key => {