storybook

Easier to setup, more accessible to use

Storybook 10.1 focuses on two key improvements: installation and accessibility:

• ♿ UI overhaul to fix hundreds of a11y issues

• 🧑‍💻 CLI overhaul for faster, more reliable install

• ✅ Checklist-based onboarding guide for new users

The release also contains compatibility fixes for:

• 🅰️ Angular 21 support

• 🦀 RSbuild install support in CLI

• ⚡️ Preact support for Vitest addon

Finally, it contains two highly-requested experimental features:

• 📋 Component manifest for Storybook MCP

• ⚛️ Improved JSX code snippets for React

List of all updates

• A11y: Add aria-selected attribute to tab buttons

• A11y: Make search clear button keyboard accessible

• Addon-Vitest: Ensure Storybook starts correctly across platforms by using shell in spawn

• Angular: Add preset entry point for framework

• Angular: Add support for v21

• Angular: Don't kill dev command by using observables

• Angular: Migrate from RxJS to async/await in command builders and run Compodoc utility as spinner

• Angular: Replace deprecated import of ApplicationConfig

• Automigration: Update description and link for addon-a11y-addon-test

• Checklist: Autocomplete "See what's new" on URL navigation

• Checklist: Data improvements

• CLI: Change yarn package manager value to yarn1

• CLI: Fix 'beforeVersion' evaluation for Storybook package

• CLI: Fix access to getOptionValue in postAction hook

• CLI: Fix framework config validation path and messages

• CLI: Fix passing flags for bun users during init

• CLI: Fix Vitest v3 installs and refactor AddonVitestService; align create‑storybook usage

• CLI: In csf-factories codemod only remove types which are unused

• CLI: Minor improvements

• CLI: Modernize Storybook CLI with new init workflow, Clack UI, and Generator System

• CLI: Standardize debug log messages across the application

• CLI: Update clack

• CLI: Update compatibility guidance link in summary message

• CLI: Update postAction hook to use command parameter for logfile retrieval

• CLI: Update upgrade message

• Core: Fix getDocsUrl for canary versions

• Core: Fix testing widget focus outline

• Core: Improve globbing using dynamic CWD

• Core: Rename Listbox component to ActionList and use it in TagsFilterPanel

• Core: Significantly improve Storybook's own accessibility

• Core: Update getDocsUrl to add a default ref param and set guide as ref for links in the Guide

• Guide: Collapse checklist items by default

• Guide: Hide items for which their required feature is disabled (controls, viewport, interactions)

• Maintenance: Enable syntax minification for dead code elimination

• Manager: Added tokens and a dark color scheme for status colors

• Middleware: Prepend file:// to middleware import for Windows support

• Onboarding: Guided tour checklist

• React: Add isPackage flag to component imports for better package identification

• React: Add manifests/components.html page

• React: Change examples to stories in manifests and show correct examples and prop types

• React: Experimental code examples

• React: Implement manifests/component.json for React

• React: Improve automatic component, automatic imports, support barrel files and enhance story filtering

• React: Improve error handling of component manifest generation

• React: Improve error messages in component manifest

• React: Improve import rewriting when tsconfig paths are used

• Remove yarn esbuild pnp plugin

• Theming: Set themes.normal according to user preference and export getPreferredColorScheme

• UI: Add padding for ArgsTable shadow in TabbedArgsTable

• UI: Add VRTs to FileSearchModal in light theme

• UI: Fix crashes in Select when passed falsy non-string options

• UI: Fix regression on addon panel empty content fontsize

• UI: Fix trivial RefBlocks ARIA violations

• UI: Improve status handling in sidebar nodes

• UI: Increase border contrast of Checkbox, Radio, and Range

• UI: Refocus search input after clearing it

• UI: Rework default background of Color swatch for dark mode

• Upgrade: Satellite compatible with 10.1 prerelease