Using Storybook with Rush

[vjau]

Summary

I had problems installing Storybook in my rush monorepo.
I resolved the problem using following command line
rush-pnpm dlx storybook@latest init --package-manager=pnpm
For some reason, even when using the rush-pnpm command (or raw pnpm), the install script was still using npm to install dependencies. Adding the --package-manager=pnpm option solved the problem.
I hope this will be useful for others since it took me some time to figure it out.

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[jonniebigodes]

Hi @vjau, thanks for reaching out to us by opening up this discussion and letting us and the community be aware of this small but rather important issue on setting Storybook with the Rush monorepo architecture. Appreciate it 🙏

[valentinpalkovic]

I think this issue was resolved in 8.0.0-alpha.2. Could you try to execute rush-pnpm dlx storybook@next init to see whether the correct package manager gets recognized?

[vjau]

Sorry, i hadn't seen your message.
Trying today rush-pnpm dlx storybook@next init, i still get errors

Installing dependencies...

npm error code EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL
npm error Unsupported URL Type "workspace:": workspace:*

As you may know, workspace: is the special format in package.json used by rush to point to local packages in the monorepo.

[vjau]

Ok, take my last message with a grain of salt, as i discovered that for some reason, when trying to install storybook in a subrepo of a monorepo with an old version of storybook already installed, it doesn't install the latest version but the same version that is already installed in another subrepo of the monorepo. (i hope that what i just wrote is readable)