cypress-react-unit-test TS + emotion error

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https://medium.com/swlh/cypress-unit-testing-react-components-with-typescript-77b38e5043b3
I was following the above blog post to try and get the plugin worrking.
I am using create-react-app so I did not need to do any special configuration to get TS to work.
I have a babelrc under ./src that contains the following:

{
  "presets": [
    "react-app"
  ],
  "plugins": ["emotion"]
}

I'm pretty sure cypress is not reading that so thats whats causing the error.
However Im not sure on how to fix this...

Any help is appreciated!

cypress_runner.js:200069 Error: The following error originated from your application code, not from Cypress.

  > Component selectors can only be used in conjunction with babel-plugin-emotion.

When Cypress detects uncaught errors originating from your application it will automatically fail the current test.

This behavior is configurable, and you can choose to turn this off by listening to the `uncaught:exception` event.
    at handleInterpolation (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:5017:13)
    at serializeStyles (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:5203:15)
    at eval (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:5532:100)
    at updateContextConsumer (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:29774:19)
    at beginWork (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:30141:14)
    at HTMLUnknownElement.callCallback (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:14972:14)
    at Object.invokeGuardedCallbackDev (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:15021:16)
    at invokeGuardedCallback (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:15083:31)
    at beginWork$1 (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:34986:7)
    at performUnitOfWork (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/tests?p=cypress/component/blah.spec.tsx:33801:12)
From previous event:
    at run (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:169809:21)
    at $Cy.cy.<computed> [as then] (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:170266:11)
    at Context.runnable.fn (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:170493:21)
    at callFn (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:104252:21)
    at Test.../driver/node_modules/mocha/lib/runnable.js.Runnable.run (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:104239:7)
    at http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:176051:28
From previous event:
    at Object.onRunnableRun (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:176039:17)
    at $Cypress.action (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:166634:28)
    at Test.Runnable.run (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:174418:13)
    at Runner.../driver/node_modules/mocha/lib/runner.js.Runner.runTest (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:104911:10)
    at http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:105037:12
    at next (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:104820:14)
    at http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:104830:7
    at next (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:104732:14)
    at http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:104798:5
    at timeslice (http://localhost:62280/__cypress/runner/cypress_runner.js:98724:27)