Storybook: "Toggle stories panel" won't re-show panel

[matchu]

Bug or support request summary

When I use the "Toggle stories panel" keyboard shortcut to hide the stories panel, I can't re-show it again. The panel successfully hides, but issuing the same keyboard shortcut again seemingly has no effect on the panel.

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Storybook.
2. Use "Cmd+Shift+X" to hide the stories panel.
3. Observe that the stories panel is successfully hidden.
4. Use "Cmd+Shift+X" to show the stories panel.
5. Observe that the stories panel remains hidden, whereas I expected it to reappear.

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

• @storybook/react 4.0.0-alpha.23
• @storybook/addon-actions 3.4.11

Affected platforms

• Browser: Firefox Developer Edition 63.0b8 (64-bit).
• OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.6.
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[techieshark]

@matchu I'm curious if you still see this. I ran into the same issue - not being able to open the stories panel after having closed it, on Firefox 64bit / OS X.

I access Storybook over HTTP, but also have an HTTPS proxy to the same instance, and when accessed over HTTPS it worked.

[shilman]

@matchu @techieshark Also curious if this is happening in ^4.0.0 or 4.1.0-alpha.*, since we've made a lot of changes since alpha.23.

Also, this probably unrelated but you should upgrade @storybook/addon-actions to track the same version as @storybook/react. We try to keep everything working together, but we don't make any special effort to make the packages work across versions, especially major version jumps like 3.x => 4.x:

@storybook/react 4.0.0-alpha.23
@storybook/addon-actions 3.4.11

[techieshark]

@shilman Just now I happened upon the fact that the sidebar can be dragged open or closed with the mouse. I think what may have happened was somehow it became closed (possibly through my own dragging with the mouse). Then when I was trying to pop it open through the key shortcut, it was toggling between a non-existent sidebar, and a sidebar of zero width, and I just wasn't noticing the little handle appearing (it's subtle and if you weren't knowing to look for it you can miss it):

So perhaps in my case this was simply 'user error'. I can't speak for @matchu though.

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Hey there, it's me again! I am going close this issue to help our maintainers focus on the current development roadmap instead. If the issue mentioned is still a concern, please open a new ticket and mention this old one. Cheers and thanks for using Storybook!

[deepakkadarivel]

You can use one of these 2 approaches to toggle storybook left panel:

1. Click anywhere on the canvas and press a -> to hide left panel and press s to show left panel.
2. Go to application settings in your browser and clear local storage and index db for your storybook host.

[Muneem]

It's kind of weird behaviour. There should be menu icon through which we can show or hide sidebar

[tvvignesh]

I didn't know about this initially, so I went to localstorage and cleared everything to get the sidebar back 😅 An icon would have been great.