Addons, core: Make `react` and Storybook packages `devDependencies` where possible #24676

JReinhold · 2023-11-02T09:21:23Z

Works on #24490

TODO

~~Document new optimizeDeps preset property~~
Reword "no React" error
Test that an addon author can import from manager-api and still have correct types, even though @storybook/types and @types/react are not part of the package.

What I did

This PR is a retry of #23486 with many non-essential things ignored.

The main purpose of this PR is to minimize the amount of peer dependencies in addons and a few of the core packages, most notably removing react as a peer dependency.

The way the manager and the preview globalizes a fixed set of dependencies means that these packages don't strictly need the dependencies, as they will be referenced from the global window instead, which our builders ensures. Removing them from peer dependencies mean that users don't need to specify them either.

Having them as devDependencies will however make our (tsup) bundler default to bundle them in, which we don't want. Therefore this PR also introduces a new bundler configuration, addon-bundle that makes sure that the globalized packages are externalized (thus the imports are kept intact), so they can be replaced with the global reference when built.
A handful of packages like manager-api are not using addon-bundle but still need these packages externalized, so they've been added to their bundler configuration manually to ensure that happens.

addon-essentials and addon-docs are largely left out of this PR, as tackling them in terms of react requires more work.

Checklist for Contributors

Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

stories
unit tests
integration tests
end-to-end tests

Manual testing

It's important to test this in the different package manager configuration, npm, yarn, yarn pnp and pnpm and with both builders.

For each configuration and builder:

Create a new non-React sandbox outside of the monorepo (npx sb@next sandbox)
Replace all versions with this PR's canary version.

Testing `addon-essentials` with docs

Run storybook and build-storybook and see that it works

Testing `addon-docs` directly

Replace addon-essentials with addon-docs both in main.ts and package.json
Run storybook and build-storybook and see that it works

Testing `addon-essentials` with docs disabled

Remove the mdx glob from stories in main.ts
Replace addon-docs with addon-essentails both in main.ts and package.json again
Remove react and react-dom from package.json. You will see an unmet peer deps from addon-essentials, that's okay.
disable docs in main.ts with { name: '@storybook/addon-essential', options: { docs: false } }
Run storybook and build-storybook and see that it works, now without React

Testing without `addon-essentials` and `addon-docs`

Remove addon-docs with addon-essentails both from main.ts and package.json again
Run storybook and build-storybook and see that it works

Documentation

Add or update documentation reflecting your changes
If you are deprecating/removing a feature, make sure to update
MIGRATION.MD

Checklist for Maintainers

When this PR is ready for testing, make sure to add ci:normal, ci:merged or ci:daily GH label to it to run a specific set of sandboxes. The particular set of sandboxes can be found in code/lib/cli/src/sandbox-templates.ts
Make sure this PR contains one of the labels below:
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- bug: Internal changes that fixes incorrect behavior.
- maintenance: User-facing maintenance tasks.
- dependencies: Upgrading (sometimes downgrading) dependencies.
- build: Internal-facing build tooling & test updates. Will not show up in release changelog.
- cleanup: Minor cleanup style change. Will not show up in release changelog.
- documentation: Documentation only changes. Will not show up in release changelog.
- feature request: Introducing a new feature.
- BREAKING CHANGE: Changes that break compatibility in some way with current major version.
- other: Changes that don't fit in the above categories.

🦋 Canary release

This pull request has been released as version 0.0.0-pr-24676-sha-214a6f84. Install it by pinning all your Storybook dependencies to that version.

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Published version	`0.0.0-pr-24676-sha-214a6f84`
Triggered by	@JReinhold
Repository	storybookjs/storybook
Branch	`experiment-addon-peer-dep`
Commit	`214a6f84`
Datetime	Wed Nov 8 11:20:01 UTC 2023 (`1699442401`)
Workflow run	6797494862

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JReinhold · 2023-11-02T13:16:39Z

@shilman could I get you to run benchmarks for this branch/version? It's largely complete now.

We expect unchanged performance and build size, but we expect a noticeable reduction in install size.

JReinhold · 2023-11-02T13:20:59Z

code/addons/controls/package.json

+    "./manager": "./dist/manager.js",
+    "./register": "./dist/manager.js",


manager and preview entries don't need types nor cjs outputs as they are always loaded in the manager or preview in the browser, never directly imported by the user.

JReinhold · 2023-11-02T13:21:33Z

code/addons/controls/package.json

+    "exportEntries": [
+      "./src/index.ts"
    ],
-    "platform": "browser"
+    "managerEntries": [
+      "./src/manager.tsx"
+    ]


these new fields are used by addon-bundle.ts to determine which entry points needs which packages externalized.
exportEntries are assumed to be imported by users, so they won't have any externalization and they'll keep their d.ts files

JReinhold · 2023-11-02T13:23:55Z

code/addons/docs/src/preset.ts

+const optimizeDeps = [
+  '@mdx-js/react',
+  '@storybook/addon-docs > acorn-jsx',
+  '@storybook/addon-docs',
+  '@storybook/addon-essentials/docs/mdx-react-shim',
+  'markdown-to-jsx',
+];


Moved from the Vite builder's default optimization, as that would break if addon-essentials was installed without react, which is a valid scenario now.

code/lib/preview/src/globals/definitions.ts

JReinhold · 2023-11-07T13:49:34Z

@shilman benchmark comparisons between next as a baseline (top) and this branch (bottom):

I don't know how much of this is noise and how much is actual change.

Vite

Webpack

ndelangen · 2023-11-07T14:53:57Z

code/addons/a11y/package.json

    "@testing-library/react": "^11.2.2",
+    "lodash": "^4.17.21",
+    "react": "^16.8.0",
+    "react-dom": "^16.8.0",


Did you check if the react-dom dep is needed truly in these addons?

It's not a big deal at all having them as devDependencies of course, no harm to users.

no, I added it as a todo to my cooldown period.

Remove react-dom from package.jsons when not needed

Audit dependencies of frameworks+renderers, they might have a lot of unused @storybook dependencies we can remove

shilman

I only reviewed for perf. I found that the sizes were slightly worse across the board, but not by an amount large enough to block the work. It would be useful to explain why the sizes all increased by a small amount, though, since it's not intuitive to me based on the change.

JReinhold added 5 commits October 31, 2023 11:41

move react and @storybook from peer deps to dev deps

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globalize packages when bundling

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use separate bundling technique for addons, manager packages

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update eslint rules

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Merge branch 'next' of github.com:storybookjs/storybook into experime…

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fix blocks dep

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move Vite deps otimization to presets

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Smarter bundling strategy storybookjs/addon-kit#60

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Docs: Document new addon bundling strategy #24776

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Revert "Addons, core: Make react and Storybook packages devDependencies where possible" #24832

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Addons, core: Make react and Storybook packages devDependencies where possible - ATTEMPT 2 #24834

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		"./manager": "./dist/manager.js",
		"./register": "./dist/manager.js",

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TODO

What I did

Checklist for Contributors

Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

Manual testing

Testing addon-essentials with docs

Testing addon-docs directly

Testing addon-essentials with docs disabled

Testing without addon-essentials and addon-docs

Documentation

Checklist for Maintainers

🦋 Canary release

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Testing `addon-essentials` with docs

Testing `addon-docs` directly

Testing `addon-essentials` with docs disabled

Testing without `addon-essentials` and `addon-docs`

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