Storybook: Config directory

[josephchang]

With the 3.3.0 releases, it looks like --config-dir/-c is not being used anymore, but in favour SBCONFIG_CONFIG_DIR, is this likely to change once it goes out of alpha, or is it going to stay?

[shilman]

From what I can tell:

• SBCONFIG_CONFIG_DIR has been around for months
• SBCONFIG_CONFIG_DIR is an alternative way to specify the config dir via env variable, but --config-dir / -c still works just fine

Hope that helps!

[josephchang]

I recently upgraded to 3.3.0-alpha.2 and encountered errors, and found that in server/config/utils.js, a new getConfigDir function had been added, which seems to ignore the command line option.

var getConfigDir = exports.getConfigDir = function getConfigDir() {
 return process.env.SBCONFIG_CONFIG_DIR || './.storybook';
};

I'm not sure what other regression errors it has caused, but for me, it no longer loaded preview-head.html into iframe.html.ejs. webpack.config(.prod).js use the above function to get the contents of that file, but it was looking in ./.storybook/preview-head.html without setting SBCONFIG_CONFIG_DIR.

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[zdrummond]

I have a very similar issue with 3.3.0-alpha.4', but only withpreview-head.html`.

1. Start on a main line release of Storybook, like what I am using 3.2.15
2. Setup your config directory somewhere other than /.storybook, add a preview-head.html to that directory and pass -c to the start-storybook.
3. Run storybook and see your `preview-head.html' injected
4. Upgrade to alpha 4
5. Run again and your preview-head changes are gone
6. Move config and preview-head to /.storybook
7. Run once more and now see your preview-head changes.

[skovy]

I couldn't find this issue with googling, but I had this same issue and using the ENV var seems to fix the issue.

https://github.com/storybooks/storybook/issues/2501

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