Storybook for Next.js

Storybook for Next.js is a framework that makes it easy to develop and test UI components in isolation for Next.js applications. It includes:

🔀 Routing
🖼 Image optimization
⤵️ Absolute imports
🎨 Styling
🎛 Webpack & Babel config
💫 and more!

Getting started

In a project without Storybook

Follow the prompts after running this command in your Next.js project's root directory:

npx storybook@latest init

In a project with Storybook

This framework is designed to work with Storybook 7+. If you’re not already using v7, upgrade with this command:

npx storybook@latest upgrade

When running the upgrade command above, you should get a prompt asking you to migrate to @storybook/nextjs, which should handle everything for you. In case that auto-migration does not work for your project, refer to the manual migration below.

Manual migration

First, install the framework:

npm install --save-dev @storybook/nextjs

Then, update your .storybook/main.js|ts to change the framework property:

.storybook/main.ts

import { StorybookConfig } from '@storybook/nextjs';
 
const config: StorybookConfig = {
  // ...
  // framework: '@storybook/react-webpack5', 👈 Remove this
  framework: '@storybook/nextjs', // 👈 Add this
};
 
export default config;

Finally, if you were using Storybook plugins to integrate with Next.js, those are no longer necessary when using this framework and can be removed:

.storybook/main.ts

import { StorybookConfig } from '@storybook/nextjs';
 
const config: StorybookConfig = {
  // ...
  addons: [
    // ...
    // 👇 These can both be removed
    // 'storybook-addon-next',
    // 'storybook-addon-next-router',
  ],
};
 
export default config;

Run the Setup Wizard

If all goes well, you should see a setup wizard that will help you get started with Storybook introducing you to the main concepts and features, including how the UI is organized, how to write your first story, and how to test your components' response to various inputs utilizing controls.

Storybook onboarding

If you skipped the wizard, you can always run it again by adding the ?path=/onboarding query parameter to the URL of your Storybook instance, provided that the example stories are still available.

Next.js's Image component

This framework allows you to use Next.js's next/image with no configuration.

Local images

Local images are supported.

// index.jsx
import Image from 'next/image';
import profilePic from '../public/me.png';
 
function Home() {
  return (
    <>
      <h1>My Homepage</h1>
      <Image
        src={profilePic}
        alt="Picture of the author"
        // width={500} automatically provided
        // height={500} automatically provided
        // blurDataURL="../public/me.png" set to equal the image itself (for this framework)
        // placeholder="blur" // Optional blur-up while loading
      />
      <p>Welcome to my homepage!</p>
    </>
  );
}

Remote images

Remote images are also supported.

// index.jsx
import Image from 'next/image';
 
export default function Home() {
  return (
    <>
      <h1>My Homepage</h1>
      <Image src="/me.png" alt="Picture of the author" width={500} height={500} />
      <p>Welcome to my homepage!</p>
    </>
  );
}

Next.js font optimization

next/font is partially supported in Storybook. The packages next/font/google and next/font/local are supported.

`next/font/google`

You don't have to do anything. next/font/google is supported out of the box.

`next/font/local`

For local fonts you have to define the src property. The path is relative to the directory where the font loader function is called.

If the following component defines your localFont like this:

// src/components/MyComponent.js
import localFont from 'next/font/local';
 
const localRubikStorm = localFont({ src: './fonts/RubikStorm-Regular.ttf' });

You have to tell Storybook where the fonts directory is located, via the staticDirs configuration. The from value is relative to the .storybook directory. The to value is relative to the execution context of Storybook. Very likely it is the root of your project.

.storybook/main.ts

import { StorybookConfig } from '@storybook/nextjs';
 
const config: StorybookConfig = {
  // ...
  staticDirs: [
    {
      from: '../src/components/fonts',
      to: 'src/components/fonts',
    },
  ],
};
 
export default config;

Not supported features of `next/font`

The following features are not supported (yet). Support for these features might be planned for the future:

Support font loaders configuration in next.config.js
fallback option
adjustFontFallback option
preload option gets ignored. Storybook handles Font loading its own way.
display option gets ignored. All fonts are loaded with display set to "block" to make Storybook load the font properly.

Mocking fonts during testing

Occasionally fetching fonts from Google may fail as part of your Storybook build step. It is highly recommended to mock these requests, as those failures can cause your pipeline to fail as well. Next.js supports mocking fonts via a JavaScript module located where the env var NEXT_FONT_GOOGLE_MOCKED_RESPONSES references.

For example, using GitHub Actions:

# .github/workflows/ci.yml
- uses: chromaui/action@v1
  env:
    #👇 the location of mocked fonts to use
    NEXT_FONT_GOOGLE_MOCKED_RESPONSES: ${{ github.workspace }}/mocked-google-fonts.js
  with:
    projectToken: ${{ secrets.CHROMATIC_PROJECT_TOKEN }}
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Your mocked fonts will look something like this:

// mocked-google-fonts.js
//👇 Mocked responses of google fonts with the URL as the key
module.exports = {
  'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Inter:wght@400;500;600;800&display=block': `
    /* cyrillic-ext */
    @font-face {
      font-family: 'Inter';
      font-style: normal;
      font-weight: 400;
      font-display: block;
      src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v12/UcCO3FwrK3iLTeHuS_fvQtMwCp50KnMw2boKoduKmMEVuLyfAZJhiJ-Ek-_EeAmM.woff2) format('woff2');
      unicode-range: U+0460-052F, U+1C80-1C88, U+20B4, U+2DE0-2DFF, U+A640-A69F, U+FE2E-FE2F;
    }
    /* more font declarations go here */
    /* latin */
    @font-face {
      font-family: 'Inter';
      font-style: normal;
      font-weight: 400;
      font-display: block;
      src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/inter/v12/UcCO3FwrK3iLTeHuS_fvQtMwCp50KnMw2boKoduKmMEVuLyfAZ9hiJ-Ek-_EeA.woff2) format('woff2');
      unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+2000-206F, U+2074, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD;
    }`,
};

Next.js routing

Next.js's router is automatically stubbed for you so that when the router is interacted with, all of its interactions are automatically logged to the Actions panel if you have the Storybook actions addon.

You should only use next/router in the pages directory. In the app directory, it is necessary to use next/navigation.

Overriding defaults

Per-story overrides can be done by adding a nextjs.router property onto the story parameters. The framework will shallowly merge whatever you put here into the router.

RouterBasedComponent.stories.ts

import { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
 
import RouterBasedComponent from './RouterBasedComponent';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof RouterBasedComponent> = {
  component: RouterBasedComponent,
};
export default meta;
 
type Story = StoryObj<typeof RouterBasedComponent>;
 
// If you have the actions addon,
// you can interact with the links and see the route change events there
export const Example: Story = {
  parameters: {
    nextjs: {
      router: {
        pathname: '/profile/[id]',
        asPath: '/profile/1',
        query: {
          id: '1',
        },
      },
    },
  },
};

These overrides can also be applied to all stories for a component or all stories in your project. Standard parameter inheritance rules apply.

Default router

The default values on the stubbed router are as follows (see globals for more details on how globals work).

// Default router
const defaultRouter = {
  // The locale should be configured globally: https://storybook.js.org/docs/essentials/toolbars-and-globals#globals
  locale: globals?.locale,
  asPath: '/',
  basePath: '/',
  isFallback: false,
  isLocaleDomain: false,
  isReady: true,
  isPreview: false,
  route: '/',
  pathname: '/',
  query: {},
};

Additionally, the router object contains all of the original methods (such as push(), replace(), etc.) as mock functions that can be manipulated and asserted on using regular mock APIs.

To override these defaults, you can use parameters and beforeEach:

// .storybook/preview.ts
import { Preview } from '@storybook/react';
// 👇 Must include the `.mock` portion of filename to have mocks typed correctly
import { getRouter } from '@storybook/nextjs/router.mock';
 
const preview: Preview = {
  parameters: {
    nextjs: {
      // 👇 Override the default router properties
      router: {
        basePath: '/app/',
      },
    },
  },
  async beforeEach() {
    // 👇 Manipulate the default router method mocks
    getRouter().push.mockImplementation(() => {
      /* ... */
    });
  },
};

Please note that next/navigation can only be used in components/pages in the app directory.

Set `nextjs.appDirectory` to `true`

If your story imports components that use next/navigation, you need to set the parameter nextjs.appDirectory to true in for that component's stories:

NavigationBasedComponent.stories.ts

import { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
 
import NavigationBasedComponent from './NavigationBasedComponent';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof NavigationBasedComponent> = {
  component: NavigationBasedComponent,
  parameters: {
    nextjs: {
      appDirectory: true, // 👈 Set this
    },
  },
};
export default meta;

If your Next.js project uses the app directory for every page (in other words, it does not have a pages directory), you can set the parameter nextjs.appDirectory to true in the .storybook/preview.js|ts file to apply it to all stories.

.storybook/preview.ts

import { Preview } from '@storybook/react';
 
const preview: Preview = {
  // ...
  parameters: {
    // ...
    nextjs: {
      appDirectory: true,
    },
  },
};
 
export default preview;

Overriding defaults

Per-story overrides can be done by adding a nextjs.navigation property onto the story parameters. The framework will shallowly merge whatever you put here into the router.

NavigationBasedComponent.stories.ts

import { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
 
import NavigationBasedComponent from './NavigationBasedComponent';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof NavigationBasedComponent> = {
  component: NavigationBasedComponent,
  parameters: {
    nextjs: {
      appDirectory: true,
    },
  },
};
export default meta;
 
type Story = StoryObj<typeof NavigationBasedComponent>;
 
// If you have the actions addon,
// you can interact with the links and see the route change events there
export const Example: Story = {
  parameters: {
    nextjs: {
      navigation: {
        pathname: '/profile',
        query: {
          user: '1',
        },
      },
    },
  },
};

These overrides can also be applied to all stories for a component or all stories in your project. Standard parameter inheritance rules apply.

`useSelectedLayoutSegment`, `useSelectedLayoutSegments`, and `useParams` hooks

The useSelectedLayoutSegment, useSelectedLayoutSegments, and useParams hooks are supported in Storybook. You have to set the nextjs.navigation.segments parameter to return the segments or the params you want to use.

NavigationBasedComponent.stories.ts

import { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
 
import NavigationBasedComponent from './NavigationBasedComponent';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof NavigationBasedComponent> = {
  component: NavigationBasedComponent,
  parameters: {
    nextjs: {
      appDirectory: true,
      navigation: {
        segments: ['dashboard', 'analytics'],
      },
    },
  },
};
export default meta;

With the above configuration, the component rendered in the stories would receive the following values from the hooks:

// NavigationBasedComponent.js
import { useSelectedLayoutSegment, useSelectedLayoutSegments, useParams } from 'next/navigation';
 
export default function NavigationBasedComponent() {
  const segment = useSelectedLayoutSegment(); // dashboard
  const segments = useSelectedLayoutSegments(); // ["dashboard", "analytics"]
  const params = useParams(); // {}
  // ...
}

To use useParams, you have to use a segments array where each element is an array containing two strings. The first string is the param key and the second string is the param value.

NavigationBasedComponent.stories.ts

import { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
 
import NavigationBasedComponent from './NavigationBasedComponent';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof NavigationBasedComponent> = {
  component: NavigationBasedComponent,
  parameters: {
    nextjs: {
      appDirectory: true,
      navigation: {
        segments: [
          ['slug', 'hello'],
          ['framework', 'nextjs'],
        ],
      },
    },
  },
};
export default meta;

With the above configuration, the component rendered in the stories would receive the following values from the hooks:

// ParamsBasedComponent.js
import { useSelectedLayoutSegment, useSelectedLayoutSegments, useParams } from 'next/navigation';
 
export default function ParamsBasedComponent() {
  const segment = useSelectedLayoutSegment(); // hello
  const segments = useSelectedLayoutSegments(); // ["hello", "nextjs"]
  const params = useParams(); // { slug: "hello", framework: "nextjs" }
  ...
}

These overrides can also be applied to a single story or all stories in your project. Standard parameter inheritance rules apply.

The default value of nextjs.navigation.segments is [] if not set.

The default values on the stubbed navigation context are as follows:

// Default navigation context
const defaultNavigationContext = {
  pathname: '/',
  query: {},
};

Additionally, the router object contains all of the original methods (such as push(), replace(), etc.) as mock functions that can be manipulated and asserted on using regular mock APIs.

To override these defaults, you can use parameters and beforeEach:

// .storybook/preview.ts
import { Preview } from '@storybook/react';
// 👇 Must include the `.mock` portion of filename to have mocks typed correctly
import { getRouter } from '@storybook/nextjs/navigation.mock';
 
const preview: Preview = {
  parameters: {
    nextjs: {
      // 👇 Override the default navigation properties
      navigation: {
        pathname: '/app/',
      },
    },
  },
  async beforeEach() {
    // 👇 Manipulate the default navigation method mocks
    getRouter().push.mockImplementation(() => {
      /* ... */
    });
  },
};

Next.js Head

next/head is supported out of the box. You can use it in your stories like you would in your Next.js application. Please keep in mind, that the Head children are placed into the head element of the iframe that Storybook uses to render your stories.

Sass/Scss

Global Sass/Scss stylesheets are supported without any additional configuration as well. Just import them into .storybook/preview.js|ts

// .storybook/preview.js|ts
import '../styles/globals.scss';

This will automatically include any of your custom Sass configurations in your next.config.js file.

// next.config.js
import * as path from 'path';
 
export default {
  // Any options here are included in Sass compilation for your stories
  sassOptions: {
    includePaths: [path.join(__dirname, 'styles')],
  },
};

CSS/Sass/Scss Modules

CSS modules work as expected.

// src/components/Button.jsx
// This import will work in Storybook
import styles from './Button.module.css';
// Sass/Scss is also supported
// import styles from './Button.module.scss'
// import styles from './Button.module.sass'
 
export function Button() {
  return (
    <button type="button" className={styles.error}>
      Destroy
    </button>
  );
}

Styled JSX

The built in CSS-in-JS solution for Next.js is styled-jsx, and this framework supports that out of the box too, zero config.

// src/components/HelloWorld.jsx
// This will work in Storybook
function HelloWorld() {
  return (
    <div>
      Hello world
      <p>scoped!</p>
      <style jsx>{`
        p {
          color: blue;
        }
        div {
          background: red;
        }
        @media (max-width: 600px) {
          div {
            background: blue;
          }
        }
      `}</style>
      <style global jsx>{`
        body {
          background: black;
        }
      `}</style>
    </div>
  );
}
 
export default HelloWorld;

You can use your own babel config too. This is an example of how you can customize styled-jsx.

// .babelrc (or whatever config file you use)
{
  "presets": [
    [
      "next/babel",
      {
        "styled-jsx": {
          "plugins": ["@styled-jsx/plugin-sass"]
        }
      }
    ]
  ]
}

PostCSS

Next.js lets you customize PostCSS config. Thus this framework will automatically handle your PostCSS config for you.

This allows for cool things like zero-config Tailwind! (See Next.js' example)

Absolute imports

Absolute imports from the root directory are supported.

// index.jsx
// All good!
import Button from 'components/button';
// Also good!
import styles from 'styles/HomePage.module.css';
 
export default function HomePage() {
  return (
    <>
      <h1 className={styles.title}>Hello World</h1>
      <Button />
    </>
  );
}

Also OK for global styles in .storybook/preview.js|ts!

// .storybook/preview.js|ts
 
import 'styles/globals.scss';
 
// ...

Absolute imports cannot be mocked in stories/tests. See the Mocking modules section for more information.

Module aliases

Module aliases are also supported.

// index.jsx
// All good!
import Button from '@/components/button';
// Also good!
import styles from '@/styles/HomePage.module.css';
 
export default function HomePage() {
  return (
    <>
      <h1 className={styles.title}>Hello World</h1>
      <Button />
    </>
  );
}

Subpath imports

As an alternative to module aliases, you can use subpath imports to import modules. This follows Node package standards and has benefits when mocking modules.

To configure subpath imports, you define the imports property in your project's package.json file. This property maps the subpath to the actual file path. The example below configures subpath imports for all modules in the project:

// package.json
{
  "imports": {
    "#*": ["./*", "./*.ts", "./*.tsx"]
  }
}

Because subpath imports replace module aliases, you can remove the path aliases from your TypeScript configuration.

Which can then be used like this:

// index.jsx
import Button from '#components/button';
import styles from '#styles/HomePage.module.css';
 
export default function HomePage() {
  return (
    <>
      <h1 className={styles.title}>Hello World</h1>
      <Button />
    </>
  );
}

Mocking modules

Components often depend on modules that are imported into the component file. These can be from external packages or internal to your project. When rendering those components in Storybook or testing them, you may want to mock those modules to control and assert their behavior.

Built-in mocked modules

This framework provides mocks for many of Next.js' internal modules:

@storybook/nextjs/cache.mock
@storybook/nextjs/headers.mock
@storybook/nextjs/navigation.mock
@storybook/nextjs/router.mock

Mocking other modules

How you mock other modules in Storybook depends on how you import the module into your component.

With either approach, the first step is to create a mock file. Here's an example of a mock file for a module named session:

lib/session.mock.ts

import { fn } from '@storybook/test';
import * as actual from './session';
 
export * from './session';
export const getUserFromSession = fn(actual.getUserFromSession).mockName('getUserFromSession');

With subpath imports

If you're using subpath imports, you can adjust your configuration to apply conditions so that the mocked module is used inside Storybook. The example below configures subpath imports for four internal modules, which are then mocked in Storybook:

package.json

{
  "imports": {
    "#api": {
      // storybook condition applies to Storybook
      "storybook": "./api.mock.ts",
      "default": "./api.ts"
    },
    "#app/actions": {
      "storybook": "./app/actions.mock.ts",
      "default": "./app/actions.ts"
    },
    "#lib/session": {
      "storybook": "./lib/session.mock.ts",
      "default": "./lib/session.ts"
    },
    "#lib/db": {
      // test condition applies to test environments *and* Storybook
      "test": "./lib/db.mock.ts",
      "default": "./lib/db.ts"
    },
    "#*": ["./*", "./*.ts", "./*.tsx"]
  }
}

Each subpath must begin with #, to differentiate it from a regular module path. The #* entry is a catch-all that maps all subpaths to the root directory.

With module aliases

If you're using module aliases, you can add a Webpack alias to your Storybook configuration to point to the mock file.

.storybook/main.ts

// Replace your-framework with the framework you are using (e.g., react-webpack5, vue3-vite)
import type { StorybookConfig } from '@storybook/your-framework';
 
const config: StorybookConfig = {
  framework: '@storybook/your-framework',
  stories: ['../src/**/*.mdx', '../src/**/*.stories.@(js|jsx|mjs|ts|tsx)'],
  viteFinal: async (config) => {
    if (config.resolve) {
      config.resolve.alias = {
        ...config.resolve?.alias,
        // 👇 External module
        lodash: require.resolve('./lodash.mock'),
        // 👇 Internal modules
        '@/api': path.resolve(__dirname, './api.mock.ts'),
        '@/app/actions': path.resolve(__dirname, './app/actions.mock.ts'),
        '@/lib/session': path.resolve(__dirname, './lib/session.mock.ts'),
        '@/lib/db': path.resolve(__dirname, './lib/db.mock.ts'),
      };
    }
 
    return config;
  },
};
 
export default config;

Runtime config

Next.js allows for Runtime Configuration which lets you import a handy getConfig function to get certain configuration defined in your next.config.js file at runtime.

In the context of Storybook with this framework, you can expect Next.js's Runtime Configuration feature to work just fine.

Note, because Storybook doesn't server render your components, your components will only see what they normally see on the client side (i.e. they won't see serverRuntimeConfig but will see publicRuntimeConfig).

For example, consider the following Next.js config:

// next.config.js
module.exports = {
  serverRuntimeConfig: {
    mySecret: 'secret',
    secondSecret: process.env.SECOND_SECRET, // Pass through env variables
  },
  publicRuntimeConfig: {
    staticFolder: '/static',
  },
};

Calls to getConfig would return the following object when called within Storybook:

// Runtime config
{
  "serverRuntimeConfig": {},
  "publicRuntimeConfig": {
    "staticFolder": "/static"
  }
}

Custom Webpack config

Next.js comes with a lot of things for free out of the box like Sass support, but sometimes you add custom Webpack config modifications to Next.js. This framework takes care of most of the Webpack modifications you would want to add. If Next.js supports a feature out of the box, then that feature will work out of the box in Storybook. If Next.js doesn't support something out of the box, but makes it easy to configure, then this framework will do the same for that thing for Storybook.

Any Webpack modifications desired for Storybook should be made in .storybook/main.js|ts.

Note: Not all Webpack modifications are copy/paste-able between next.config.js and .storybook/main.js|ts. It is recommended to do your research on how to properly make your modification to Storybook's Webpack config and on how Webpack works.

Below is an example of how to add SVGR support to Storybook with this framework.

.storybook/main.ts

import { StorybookConfig } from '@storybook/nextjs';
 
const config: StorybookConfig = {
  // ...
  webpackFinal: async (config) => {
    config.module = config.module || {};
    config.module.rules = config.module.rules || [];
 
    // This modifies the existing image rule to exclude .svg files
    // since you want to handle those files with @svgr/webpack
    const imageRule = config.module.rules.find((rule) => rule?.['test']?.test('.svg'));
    if (imageRule) {
      imageRule['exclude'] = /\.svg$/;
    }
 
    // Configure .svg files to be loaded with @svgr/webpack
    config.module.rules.push({
      test: /\.svg$/,
      use: ['@svgr/webpack'],
    });
 
    return config;
  },
};
 
export default config;

Typescript

Storybook handles most Typescript configurations, but this framework adds additional support for Next.js's support for Absolute Imports and Module path aliases. In short, it takes into account your tsconfig.json's baseUrl and paths. Thus, a tsconfig.json like the one below would work out of the box.

// tsconfig.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "paths": {
      "@/components/*": ["components/*"]
    }
  }
}

React Server Components (RSC)

(⚠️ Experimental)

If your app uses React Server Components (RSC), Storybook can render them in stories in the browser.

To enable this set the experimentalRSC feature flag in your .storybook/main.js|ts config:

.storybook/main.ts

import { StorybookConfig } from '@storybook/nextjs';
 
const config: StorybookConfig = {
  // ...
  features: {
    experimentalRSC: true,
  },
};
 
export default config;

Setting this flag automatically wraps your story in a Suspense wrapper, which is able to render asynchronous components in NextJS's version of React.

If this wrapper causes problems in any of your existing stories, you can selectively disable it using the react.rsc parameter at the global/component/story level:

MyServerComponent.stories.ts

import { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
 
import MyServerComponent from './MyServerComponent';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof MyServerComponent> = {
  component: MyServerComponent,
  parameters: {
    react: { rsc: false },
  },
};
export default meta;

Note that wrapping your server components in Suspense does not help if your server components access server-side resources like the file system or Node-specific libraries. To work around this, you'll need to mock out your data access layer using Webpack aliases or an addon like storybook-addon-module-mock.

If your server components access data via the network, we recommend using the MSW Storybook Addon to mock network requests.

In the future we will provide better mocking support in Storybook and support for Server Actions.

Notes for Yarn v2 and v3 users

If you're using Yarn v2 or v3, you may run into issues where Storybook can't resolve style-loader or css-loader. For example, you might get errors like:

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'css-loader'
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'style-loader'

This is because those versions of Yarn have different package resolution rules than Yarn v1.x. If this is the case for you, please install the package directly.

FAQ

Stories for pages/components which fetch data

Next.js pages can fetch data directly within server components in the app directory, which often include module imports that only run in a node environment. This does not (currently) work within Storybook, because if you import from a Next.js page file containing those node module imports in your stories, your Storybook's Webpack will crash because those modules will not run in a browser. To get around this, you can extract the component in your page file into a separate file and import that pure component in your stories. Or, if that's not feasible for some reason, you can polyfill those modules in your Storybook's webpackFinal configuration.

Before

// app/my-page/index.jsx
async function getData() {
  const res = await fetch(...);
  // ...
}
 
// Using this component in your stories will break the Storybook build
export default async function Page() {
  const data = await getData();
 
  return // ...
}

After

// app/my-page/index.jsx
 
// Use this component in your stories
import MyPage from './components/MyPage';
 
async function getData() {
  const res = await fetch(...);
  // ...
}
 
export default async function Page() {
  const data = await getData();
 
  return <MyPage {...data} />;
}

Statically imported images won't load

Make sure you are treating image imports the same way you treat them when using next/image in normal development.

Before using this framework, image imports would import the raw path to the image (e.g. 'static/media/stories/assets/logo.svg'). Now image imports work the "Next.js way", meaning that you now get an object when importing an image. For example:

// Image import object
{
  "src": "static/media/stories/assets/logo.svg",
  "height": 48,
  "width": 48,
  "blurDataURL": "static/media/stories/assets/logo.svg"
}

Therefore, if something in Storybook isn't showing the image properly, make sure you expect the object to be returned from an import instead of only the asset path.

See local images for more detail on how Next.js treats static image imports.

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve `package name`

You might get this if you're using Yarn v2 or v3. See Notes for Yarn v2 and v3 users for more details.

What if I'm using the Vite builder?

The @storybook/nextjs package abstracts the Webpack 5 builder and provides all the necessary Webpack configuration needed (and used internally) by Next.js. Webpack is currently the official builder in Next.js, and Next.js does not support Vite, therefore it is not possible to use Vite with @storybook/nextjs. You can use @storybook/react-vite framework instead, but at the cost of having a degraded experience, and we won't be able to provide you official support.

Error: You are importing avif images, but you don't have sharp installed. You have to install sharp in order to use image optimization features in Next.js.

sharp is a dependency of Next.js's image optimization feature. If you see this error, you need to install sharp in your project.

npm install sharp

yarn add sharp

pnpm add sharp

You can refer to the Install sharp to Use Built-In Image Optimization in the Next.js documentation for more information.

API

Modules

The @storybook/nextjs package exports several modules that enable you to mock Next.js's internal behavior.

`@storybook/nextjs/export-mocks`

Type: { getPackageAliases: ({ useESM?: boolean }) => void }

getPackageAliases is a helper for generating the aliases needed to set up portable stories.

// jest.config.ts
import type { Config } from 'jest';
import nextJest from 'next/jest.js';
// 👇 Import the utility function
import { getPackageAliases } from '@storybook/nextjs/export-mocks';
 
const createJestConfig = nextJest({
  // Provide the path to your Next.js app to load next.config.js and .env files in your test environment
  dir: './',
});
 
const config: Config = {
  testEnvironment: 'jsdom',
  // ... rest of Jest config
  moduleNameMapper: {
    ...getPackageAliases(), // 👈 Add the utility as mapped module names
  },
};
 
export default createJestConfig(config);

`@storybook/nextjs/cache.mock`

Type: typeof import('next/cache')

This module exports mocked implementations of the next/cache module's exports. You can use it to create your own mock implementations or assert on mock calls in a story's play function.

MyForm.stories.ts

import type { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
import { expect, userEvent, within } from '@storybook/test';
// 👇 Must include the `.mock` portion of filename to have mocks typed correctly
import { revalidatePath } from '@storybook/nextjs/cache.mock';
 
import MyForm from './my-form';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof MyForm> = {
  component: MyForm,
};
 
export default meta;
 
type Story = StoryObj<typeof MyForm>;
 
export const Submitted: Story = {
  async play({ canvasElement }) {
    const canvas = within(canvasElement);
 
    const submitButton = canvas.getByRole('button', { name: /submit/i });
    await userEvent.click(saveButton);
    // 👇 Use any mock assertions on the function
    await expect(revalidatePath).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/');
  },
};

`@storybook/nextjs/headers.mock`

Type: cookies, headers and draftMode from Next.js

This module exports writable mocked implementations of the next/headers module's exports. You can use it to set up cookies or headers that are read in your story, and to later assert that they have been called.

Next.js's default headers() export is read-only, but this module exposes methods allowing you to write to the headers:

headers().append(name: string, value: string): Appends the value to the header if it exists already.
headers().delete(name: string): Deletes the header
headers().set(name: string, value: string): Sets the header to the value provided.

For cookies, you can use the existing API to write them. E.g., cookies().set('firstName', 'Jane').

Because headers(), cookies() and their sub-functions are all mocks you can use any mock utilities in your stories, like headers().getAll.mock.calls.

MyForm.stories.ts

import type { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
import { expect, fireEvent, userEvent, within } from '@storybook/test';
// 👇 Must include the `.mock` portion of filename to have mocks typed correctly
import { cookies, headers } from '@storybook/nextjs/headers.mock';
 
import MyForm from './my-form';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof MyForm> = {
  component: MyForm,
};
 
export default meta;
 
type Story = StoryObj<typeof MyForm>;
 
export const LoggedInEurope: Story = {
  async beforeEach() {
    // 👇 Set mock cookies and headers ahead of rendering
    cookies().set('username', 'Sol');
    headers().set('timezone', 'Central European Summer Time');
  },
  async play() {
    // 👇 Assert that your component called the mocks
    await expect(cookies().get).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
    await expect(cookies().get).toHaveBeenCalledWith('username');
    await expect(headers().get).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
    await expect(cookies().get).toHaveBeenCalledWith('timezone');
  },
};

`@storybook/nextjs/navigation.mock`

Type: typeof import('next/navigation') & getRouter: () => ReturnType<typeof import('next/navigation')['useRouter']>

This module exports mocked implementations of the next/navigation module's exports. It also exports a getRouter function that returns a mocked version of Next.js's router object from useRouter, allowing the properties to be manipulated and asserted on. You can use it mock implementations or assert on mock calls in a story's play function.

MyForm.stories.ts

import type { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
import { expect, fireEvent, userEvent, within } from '@storybook/test';
// 👇 Must include the `.mock` portion of filename to have mocks typed correctly
import { redirect, getRouter } from '@storybook/nextjs/navigation.mock';
 
import MyForm from './my-form';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof MyForm> = {
  component: MyForm,
  parameters: {
    nextjs: {
      // 👇 As in the Next.js application, next/navigation only works using App Router
      appDirectory: true,
    },
  },
};
 
export default meta;
 
type Story = StoryObj<typeof MyForm>;
 
export const Unauthenticated: Story = {
  async play() => {
    // 👇 Assert that your component called redirect()
    await expect(redirect).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/login', 'replace');
  },
};
 
export const GoBack: Story = {
  async play({ canvasElement }) {
    const canvas = within(canvasElement);
    const backBtn = await canvas.findByText('Go back');
 
    await userEvent.click(backBtn);
    // 👇 Assert that your component called back()
    await expect(getRouter().back).toHaveBeenCalled();
  },
};

`@storybook/nextjs/router.mock`

Type: typeof import('next/router') & getRouter: () => ReturnType<typeof import('next/router')['useRouter']>

This module exports mocked implementations of the next/router module's exports. It also exports a getRouter function that returns a mocked version of Next.js's router object from useRouter, allowing the properties to be manipulated and asserted on. You can use it mock implementations or assert on mock calls in a story's play function.

MyForm.stories.ts

import type { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';
import { expect, fireEvent, userEvent, within } from '@storybook/test';
// 👇 Must include the `.mock` portion of filename to have mocks typed correctly
import { getRouter } from '@storybook/nextjs/router.mock';
 
import MyForm from './my-form';
 
const meta: Meta<typeof MyForm> = {
  component: MyForm,
};
 
export default meta;
 
type Story = StoryObj<typeof MyForm>;
 
export const GoBack: Story = {
  async play({ canvasElement }) {
    const canvas = within(canvasElement);
    const backBtn = await canvas.findByText('Go back');
 
    await userEvent.click(backBtn);
    // 👇 Assert that your component called back()
    await expect(getRouter().back).toHaveBeenCalled();
  },
};

Options

You can pass an options object for additional configuration if needed:

// .storybook/main.js
import * as path from 'path';
 
export default {
  // ...
  framework: {
    name: '@storybook/nextjs',
    options: {
      image: {
        loading: 'eager',
      },
      nextConfigPath: path.resolve(__dirname, '../next.config.js'),
    },
  },
};

The available options are:

If your story imports components that use next/navigation, you need to set the parameter nextjs.appDirectory to true. Because this is a parameter, you can apply it to a single story, all stories for a component, or every story in your Storybook. See Next.js Navigation for more details.

Type:

{
  asPath?: string;
  pathname?: string;
  query?: Record<string, string>;
  segments?: (string | [string, string])[];
}

Default value:

{
  segments: [];
}

The router object that is passed to the next/navigation context. See Next.js's navigation docs for more details.

`router`

Type:

{
  asPath?: string;
  pathname?: string;
  query?: Record<string, string>;
}

The router object that is passed to the next/router context. See Next.js's router docs for more details.