Storybook: Improve @storybook/* visibility on NPM

[shilman]

why

Currently when people search for e.g. react storybook on NPM, a lot of other results show up. @storybook/* should show up at the top. Search is powered by npms.io:

This will clear up over time automatically, but we should accelerate it.

• Full list of ranking signals here: https://npms.io/about
• Analysis (?) for @storybook/react: https://api.npms.io/v2/package/%40storybook%2Freact

what

• [x] Close a bunch of issues to improve the "active issues" / "total issues" number
• [ ] Improve our test coverage (team hackathon???)
• [ ] Get @arunoda or @mnmtanish to deprecate the @kadira/* packages after 3.0 release stabilizes

[ndelangen]

You bring up an issue stating we should bring our total issues down?

[UsulPro]

At this moment @storybook/react has 23,000 downloads per week on npm vs 61,000 of @kadira/storybook

getstorybook still has 1,787 downloads per week. it's already less than @storybook/cli but still meaningful

This will clear up over time automatically, but we should accelerate it.

Possible step could be to involve getstorybook users to shift to @Storybook packages. Here is a proposal: storybooks/getstorybook#30

[Hypnosphi]

Does anyone really use anything other than web search (i.e. Google) to find stuff?

[ndelangen]

Either way, the correct packages (ours) show up first now.

[sodoku]

People who try to use npx will still download the old version. npx getstorybook will resolve to the deprecated version as the name matches.

[Hypnosphi]

Npx allows specifying package name:

npx getstorybook -p @storybook/cli

[sodoku]

@Hypnosphi thanks, I know. But unless you are aware that you have to do this to not get an outdated version, you would probably try to do npx getstorybook first. At least that's what I did and it took me a while until I realized that I was using an old version that is deprecated.

What do you think of printing a warning when you run the deprecated version?

[Hypnosphi]

I think we can even make it throw. @ndelangen WDYT?