no-uninstalled-addons.md

no-uninstalled-addons

Included in these configurations:

• recommended
• flat/recommended

Rule Details

This rule checks if all addons registered in .storybook/main.js are properly listed in the root package.json of your project.

For instance, if the @storybook/addon-links is in the .storybook/main.js but is not listed in the package.json of the project, this rule will notify the user to add the addon to the package.json and install it.

As an important side note, this rule will check for the package.json in the root level of your project. You can customize the location of the package.json by setting the packageJsonLocation option.

Another very important side note: your ESLint config must allow the linting of the .storybook folder. By default, ESLint ignores all dot-files so this folder will be ignored. In order to allow this rule to lint the .storybook/main.js file, it's important to configure ESLint to lint this file. This can be achieved by writing something like:

// Inside your .eslintignore file
!.storybook

For more info, check this ESLint documentation.

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

// in .storybook/main.js
module.exports = {
  addons: [
    '@storybook/addon-links',
    '@storybook/addon-essentials',
    '@storybook/addon-interactions', // <-- this addon is not listed in the package.json
  ],
}

// package.json
{
  "devDependencies": {
    "@storybook/addon-links": "0.0.1",
    "@storybook/addon-essentials": "0.0.1",
  }
}

Examples of correct code for this rule:

// in .storybook/main.js
module.exports = {
  addons: [
    '@storybook/addon-links',
    '@storybook/addon-essentials',
    '@storybook/addon-interactions',
  ],
}

// package.json
{
  "devDependencies": {
    "@storybook/addon-links": "0.0.1",
    "@storybook/addon-essentials": "0.0.1",
    "@storybook/addon-interactions": "0.0.1"
  }
}

Configure

packageJsonLocation

This rule assumes that the package.json is located in the root of your project. You can customize this by setting the packageJsonLocation option of the rule:

module.exports = {
  rules: {
    'storybook/no-uninstalled-addons': ['error', { packageJsonLocation: './folder/package.json' }],
  },
}

Note that the path must be relative to where ESLint runs from, which is usually relative to the root of the project.

ignore

You can also ignore certain addons by providing an ignore array in the options:

module.exports = {
  rules: {
    'storybook/no-uninstalled-addons': [
      'error',
      {
        packageJsonLocation: './folder/package.json',
        ignore: ['custom-addon'],
      },
    ],
  },
}

What if I use a different storybook config directory?

Some Storybook folders use a different name for their config directory other than .storybook. This rule will not be applied there by default. If you have a custom location for your storybook config directory, then you must add an override in your .eslintrc.js file, defining your config directory:

{
  overrides: [
      {
        files: ['your-config-dir/main.@(js|cjs|mjs|ts)'],
        rules: {
          'storybook/no-uninstalled-addons': 'error'
        },
      },
    ],
}

When Not To Use It

This rule is very handy to be used because if the user tries to start storybook but has forgotten to install the plugin, storybook will throw very weird errors that will give no clue to the user to what's going wrong. To prevent that, this rule should be always on.

Further Reading

Check the issue in GitHub: #95