A new release for Storybook with better vitest implementation to run your stories as tests, new Nextjs plugin, and different size & performance improvements.

And what if we were doing our tests directly in storybook ? What if just by using storybook we could write less tests. And what if visual testing with snapshots were the answer ? Storybook give us its point of view on theses questions in this article.

Playwright can take existing stories from storybook and directly test scenarios from them. It allows to share configuration between the tools. That's why storybook launched an experimental features named Portable stories.

Storybook version 8 introduces many new features: React Server Components, faster test builds, Vite & Vitest support, UI optimizations, and better responsiveness.