Storybook 8.0 - March 2024

• 💨 2-4x faster test builds, 25-50% faster React docgen, and SWC support for Webpack projects
• ✨ Improved framework support: you no longer need to install React as a peer dependency when using a non-React renderer
• 🌐 Support for React Server Components (RSC): our experimental solution renders async RSC in the browser and mocks Node code
• storiesOf API has been removed
• *.stories.mdx format has been removed
• Implicit actions (from argTypesRegex) can no longer be used during rendering (e.g. in a play function)
• react-docgen (instead of react-docgen-typescript) is the default for component analysis
• Storyshots has been removed
• Addons API introduced in Storybook 7 is now required
• Ecosystem updates
  • Node 18+ is now required
  • Next.js 13.5+ is now required
  • Vue 3+ is now required
  • Angular 15+ is now required
  • Svelte 4+ is now required
  • Yarn 1 is no longer supported
• ➕ Much, much more

This is a major release, so there are tons of little fixes and improvements. Browse the changelogs for the full list of changes.

There are breaking changes. Please refer to our Migration guide to upgrade from pre-8.0 of Storybook.