⚠️ This addon is officially deprecated ⚠️
Since it's release, addon-styling has been a great way to get your styles configured in Storybook. However, as the addon quickly evolved, it became clear that it was trying to do too much. It was trying to be a configuration tool, a theming tool, and a housed bulky code mods as well. This made it difficult to maintain and added a lot of dependencies that most users didn't need.
To address this, I've split the addon into two separate addons, @storybook/addon-styling-webpack and @storybook/addon-themes. These addons are much more focused and will allow us to iterate on them more quickly.
@storybook/addon-styling-webpack will be specifically for configuring your Webpack based Storybooks with popular tools like Tailwind, Post CSS, SCSS, Less, and Vanilla-extract.
@storybook/addon-themes will be focused on providing and switching between multiple themes in Storybook regardless of what building tool that you use.
I've also moved the codemods to a separate package so that they can be used through npx/ yarn dlx / pnpm dlx without having a bulky codemod staying in your node_modules.
I've added a migration guide to help you migrate to the new addons. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me on Twitter or the support channel in the Storybook Discord.
All the best, Shaun Evening
@storybook/addon-styling
Get started in Storybook 7 faster with popular styling tools.
Using Storybook 6? Check out the release-0-3 branch

✨ Features
- 🤖 Zero-config for popular tools through codemods. Read more.
- 🧩 Configuration templates for popular tools
- ⚡️ Options for css modules, postCss, Sass, and Less
- 🎨 Provide themes
- 🔄 Toggle between multiple themes when more than one is provided
- ❗️ Override theme at the component and story level through parameters
🏁 Getting Started
To get started, install the package as a dev dependency
yarn:
yarn add -D @storybook/addon-styling
npm:
npm install -D @storybook/addon-styling
pnpm:
pnpm add -D @storybook/addon-styling
Then, include the addon in your .storybook/main.js file
module.exports = {
stories: [
"../stories/**/*.stories.mdx",
"../stories/**/*.stories.@(js|jsx|ts|tsx)",
],
addons: [
"@storybook/addon-essentials",
+ "@storybook/addon-styling"
],
};
👇 Tool specific configuration
For tool-specific setup, check out the recipes below
@emotion/styled@mui/materialbootstrapcssModuleslesspostcsssassstyled-componentstailwindvuetify@3.x
Don't see your favorite tool listed? Don't worry! That doesn't mean this addon isn't for you. Check out the "Writing a custom decorator" section of the api reference.
❗️ Overriding theme
If you want to override your theme for a particular component or story, you can use the theming.themeOverride parameter.
import React from "react";
import { Button } from "./Button";
export default {
title: "Example/Button",
component: Button,
parameters: {
theming: {
themeOverride: "light", // component level override
},
},
};
const Template = (args) => <Button {...args} />;
export const Primary = Template.bind({});
Primary.args = {
primary: true,
label: "Button",
};
export const PrimaryDark = Template.bind({});
PrimaryDark.args = {
primary: true,
label: "Button",
};
PrimaryDark.parameters = {
theming: {
themeOverride: "dark", // Story level override
},
};
🤝 Contributing
If you'd like to contribute to this addon, THANK YOU, I'd love your help 🙏
📝 Development scripts
yarn startruns babel in watch mode and starts Storybookyarn buildbuild and package your addon code
🌲 Branch structure
- next - the
nextversion on npm, and the development branch where most work occurs - main - the
latestversion on npm and the stable version that most users use
🚀 Release process
- All PRs should target the
nextbranch, which depends on thenextversion of Storybook. - When merged, a new version of this package will be released on the
nextNPM tag. - If the change contains a bugfix that needs to be patched back to the stable version, please note that in PR description.
- PRs labeled
pickwill get cherry-picked back to themainbranch and will generate a release on thelatestnpm tag.
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