[Bug]: `csf-plugin` fails to read stories with names not matching hardcoded regex

[abiriadev]

Describe the bug

If a user change stories option from main.ts config(https://storybook.js.org/docs/api/main-config-stories), the addon-docs can't detect the stories file anymore because csf-plugin assumes CSF file should match with the pattern which is hardcoded, means there is no way to configure it from outside.

https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/479b8e919fccf12d3def4470d455682bb3965c45/code/lib/csf-plugin/src/index.ts#L9

To Reproduce

To reproduce, I simply added custom CSF patterns to main.ts.

const config: StorybookConfig = {
  // ...
  stories: ["../src/**/*.mdx", "../src/**/*.stories.@(js|jsx|mjs|ts|tsx)", "../src/**/*.custom-stories.@(js|jsx|mjs|ts|tsx)"],
  // ...
};

You can find reproduction code at here: https://github.com/abiriadev/sb-csf-plugin-regex

As a short summary, the JSDoc comment inside *.custom-stories.ts does not render, while the same comment inside *.stories.ts renders without any issue.

There is also Stackblitz URL for the same code: https://stackblitz.com/github/storybookjs/sandboxes/tree/next/react-vite/default-ts/after-storybook?file=.storybook%2Fmain.ts

System

Storybook Environment Info:

  System:
    OS: Linux 6.8 Arch Linux
    CPU: (8) x64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
    Shell: 3.7.1 - /bin/fish
  Binaries:
    Node: 20.6.1 - /run/user/1000/fnm_multishells/123756_1713749574530/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.22 - /run/user/1000/fnm_multishells/123756_1713749574530/bin/yarn <----- active
    npm: 9.8.1 - /run/user/1000/fnm_multishells/123756_1713749574530/bin/npm
    pnpm: 8.10.2 - ~/.local/share/pnpm/pnpm
  npmPackages:
    @storybook/addon-docs: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    @storybook/addon-essentials: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    @storybook/addon-interactions: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    @storybook/addon-links: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    @storybook/addon-onboarding: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    @storybook/blocks: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    @storybook/react: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    @storybook/react-vite: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    @storybook/test: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    eslint-plugin-storybook: ^0.8.0 => 0.8.0
    storybook: ^8.0.8 => 8.0.8
    storybook-addon-remix-react-router: ^3.0.0 => 3.0.0

Additional context

A quickfix I can currently come up with is, to add stories field to EnrichCsfOptions type and use that value instead of STORIES_REGEX (or use STORIES_REGEX as a fallback).

https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/479b8e919fccf12d3def4470d455682bb3965c45/code/lib/csf-tools/src/enrichCsf.ts#L7-L10

https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/479b8e919fccf12d3def4470d455682bb3965c45/code/lib/csf-plugin/src/index.ts#L16-L18

But it would be ideal for addon-docs to automatically extract stories field from main.ts, since @storybook/addon-essentials should work with zero-config.

[valentinpalkovic]

Hi @abiriadev

Thank you for reporting the issue!

Would you be able to put a PR together?

[shilman]

@valentinpalkovic There are a variety of places where we hardcode the story suffix because it's hard to get the information out of main.js and into those parts of the code. Fixing this is a larger architectural issue.

In the meantime, please use the recommended story suffix and you won't have any problems.

[abiriadev]

@shilman cc @valentinpalkovic

Fixing this is a larger architectural issue.

I totally understand that it would be hard to refactor every hardcoded part of the entire codebase!

In the meantime, please use the recommended story suffix and you won't have any problems.

Regarding the "meantime," does this imply that there are plans to address this issue in the near future, perhaps by providing an API for plugins? Or is it not planned for the immediate future? If it's unplanned, I will close this issue for now. :)

Thank you always for dedicating time to this awesome project!