react storybook addon knobs not showing

Question

I cant seem to be getting the @storybook addon knobs working? It doesnt seem to be decorating the actual story. Pretty much followed this

My code below.. Im using getstorybook with create-react-app

Using below packages:

@storybook/addon-actions": "^3.1.2,
@storybook/addon-info": "^3.1.4,
@storybook/addon-knobs": "^3.1.2,
@storybook/react": "^3.1.3

my setup

//.storybook/addons.js
import '@storybook/addon-knobs/register'

//.config
import { configure, setAddon, addDecorator } from '@storybook/react';
import infoAddon from '@storybook/addon-info';

setAddon(infoAddon);

function loadStories() {
  require('../stories');
}

configure(loadStories, module);

//stories/index.js
import React from 'react';
import { withKnobs, text, boolean, number } from '@storybook/addon-knobs';
import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/react';

const stories = storiesOf('Storybook Knobs', module);

  // Add the `withKnobs` decorator to add knobs support to your stories.
  // You can also configure `withKnobs` as a global decorator.
  stories.addDecorator(withKnobs);

  // Knobs for React props
  stories.add('with a button', () => (
    <button disabled={boolean('Disabled', false)} >
      {text('Label', 'Hello Button')}
    </button>
  ))

This should be a no brainer, but no suck luck.

Answer 1

Hope this helps someone, but for some reason my addons panel suddenly disappeared from view and I couldn't figure out how to get it back. I could see the addons markup being rendered in the "elements" pane in my dev tools - so I knew things were working. Somehow storybook stored a bad value in my localStorage['storybook-layout'] so that the addons were positioned waaaaayyy off screen. Running the following fixed it.

localStorage.removeItem('storybook-layout')

Answer 2

You probably need to create the addons.js file on the storybook config folder. (By default .storybook).

Check the Docs for knobs you need to add the following:

import '@storybook/addon-knobs/register';