Storybook: Cannot find relative presets defined in `.babelrc`

[vjpr]

Issue details

ERROR in ./.storybook/addons.js
Module build failed: Error: Couldn't find preset "./packages/babel-preset-foo" relative to directory "/Users/Vaughan/dev-live/foo/.storybook"

Project tree:

- .babelrc
- packages
  - babel-preset-foo

_.babelrc_

{"presets": ["./packages/babel-preset-foo"]}

Please specify which version of Storybook and optionally any affected addons that you're running

    "@storybook/react": "^3.3.9",
    "@storybook/addon-actions": "^3.3.9",
    "@storybook/addon-links": "^3.3.9",
    "@storybook/addons": "^3.3.9"

[vjpr]

Simple fix was to add a .babelrc file to .storybook/ and correct the relative preset path.

[vjpr]

This didn't actually solve my problem. It appears that babel tries to read relative presets from the dir of the file it is processing. So the preset path would need to be absolute, but this is not possible because .babelrc is static...

It's not happening with the rest of my app, so I am wondering if its a storybook config setting.

[vjpr]

Seems related to https://github.com/storybooks/storybook/issues/172

I am using:

{
  "extends": "../.babelrc"
}

This resolves the errors for now.

[vjpr]

The extends rewriting should also be added for presets and plugins perhaps:

https://github.com/storybooks/storybook/blob/83d55c23fa124fa87cd061bdb5b5ce9453b393c1/app/vue/src/server/babel_config.js#L58-L66

[Hypnosphi]

Also related: #2610 #2582

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[Hypnosphi]

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