diff --git a/packages/server/jest.setup.js b/packages/server/jest.setup.js
index 47829a53ad..e88aa76273 100644
--- a/packages/server/jest.setup.js
+++ b/packages/server/jest.setup.js
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+const { shimInit } = require('@joplin/lib/shim-init-node.js');
+const nodeSqlite = require('sqlite3');
+
+shimInit({ nodeSqlite });
+
 // We don't want the tests to fail due to timeout, especially on CI, and certain
 // tests can take more time since we do integration testing too.
 jest.setTimeout(30 * 1000);