Storybook: Storybook 5.3 Release 🙌

[shilman]

Here we go ... Storybook 5.2 is stable and 5.3 is on its way!

Schedule

• ✅ 5.3.0-alpha.0 2019-09-16
• ✅ 5.3.0-beta.0 2019-11-16 (est. 2019-11-11)
• ✅ 5.3.0-rc.0 2019-12-19 (est. 2019-12-16)
• 🏁 5.3.0 2020-01-11 (est. 2020-01-07)

Contents

• [x] 📝 Custom documentation in MDX
• [x] 🎨 Multi-framework SB Docs (React, Vue, Angular, WC, Ember)
• [x] 📦 Web-components framework support
• [x] 🔼 Main.js declarative configuration

Plus hundreds more changes of varying sizes and shapes, documented in the CHANGELOG

Help wanted

We need your help stabilizing Storybook 5.3 for the final release. It's in beta now because we think it's ready to use in most projects.

The biggest thing is to try upgrading your project to the latest prerelease, see if you run into problems, and file github isues. The sooner we uncover problems with the upgrade, the more time we have to fix and document them.

npx npm-check-updates '/storybook/' -un
npm install # yarn if you prefer

Take note of feature-specific migration instructions when you upgrade.

And of course, if you see any issues that you can help with, PRs are always welcome. Storybook wouldn't be possible without high-quality contributions from our wonderful community.

Thanks for your help and stay posted for more updates!

[BradCandell]

I assume that the (estimated) release date of 1/7/2019 is supposed to be 1/7/2020?

[drew-codes]

Sweeeet! Thanks @shilman.

Just popping by to say that the above command didn't work for me, but the following did:
npx npm-check-updates "/^@storybook.*$/" -un

[o-t-w]

How do I set up a brand new project to use this?

[shilman]

@o-t-w

cd my-project
npx -p @storybook/cli@next sb init 

To add docs, see the instructions: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/next/addons/docs/README.md#installation

[AndrewPrifer]

@shilman considering it seems like there were quite some changes to the preferred way of configuring Storybook (moving to main.js and presets), will there be a migration guide from 5.2 to 5.3? Currently I can't find any.

Also, why the decision to use globs instead of regular expressions to match story files? Globs seem less convenient to me because they are less powerful, and people already know regex, which is a language feature. Plus it also needs to be explicitly documented because every linux shell has their own version. To me it seems it just adds extra complexity for no benefit. (To be clear I'm not debating the removal of the reliance on webpack context, just the use of globs.)

[m0t0r]

@andrewpeterprifer you can find the Migration Guide here.

[shilman]

@andrewpeterprifer We do migration notes for every release like @m0t0r linked to. All of the changes in 5.3 really just test balloons for the next release, which is 6.0. We'll work out the kinks, make breaking changes if we need to, deprecate the old versions, and release a more structured guide like we did for 5.0 and 4.0 before it.

As for globs, I can't speak to that decision, except that it seems to be the most common way to deal with file-related matching.

[AndrewPrifer]

Thank you for pointing me to the guide! I was looking in the docs. The point about globs for file matching is fair.