Storybook must be restored to updating example result values

[underbluewaters]

I'm finding myself discovering errors or changes I'd like to make to geoprocessing function results after reviewing them in Storybook. Re-running the tests and generating new example results does not appear to update the storybook output, either via hot-reload or a manual refresh. I'm having to restart Storybook entirely.

[twelch]

This is a known issue (to me anyway) with storybook losing it's storiesOf functionality in the latest version 8. Their proposed methods for migrating (using the indexer) felt too low-level and undocumented for me to figure out 6 months ago. I figured the community would come up with a higher-level solution.

So I punted (for now) and created genReportStories script as a user-space solution, which has the downsides you mention. You have to regenerate the stories manually on storybook startup. Maybe there's a way to trigger the regeneration in user-space outside of storybook, or maybe there's a solution out there now that better hooks into storybook.

storybookjs/storybook#23177

[twelch]

There was a lot of complaints about this breaking change, and I was not the only one to choose the solution I did.

[twelch]

I used the latest version 8 of storybook because it gave the needed Vite support as the builder, and best shot of working out of the box in an esm node environment.