Hide Storybook "new version is available" popup?

Question

Whenever I start Storybook on localhost, I get this:

"Storybook [version] is available!" popup

This is particularly annoying on mobile as it takes up like 10% of the vertical space, and you need to re-close this popup everytime you restart the dev server

Answer 1

Make sure your Storybook version is at least 5.3.0
Run storybook using:

start-storybook --no-version-updates

or in package.json

"scripts": {
  "storybook": "start-storybook --no-version-updates"
}

More info:

• Announcement post on Storybook GitHub