Request: Synchronous mode

[bmulholland]

I saw the comment about the difficulty of making a synchronous option for this library, so I understand that this might not be feasible. Still, I wanted to log the request: top-level await isn't available in storybooks, particularly when taking snapshots for Chromatic. This means I have to jump through complex Storybook hoops of using loaders instead of standard args. It's a ton of boiler plate every time I use it, just to get the single await, and makes it really hard to override/set custom values per story. Would love a synchronous mode, it would really clean up our code.

[mizdra]

Thanks for sending a feature request!

top-level await isn't available in storybooks

Is this true? According to storybookjs/storybook#15129 it seems possible. I actually tried it and was able to use top-level await.

• https://github.com/mizdra/storybook-top-level-await-test

Perhaps your bundler (vite, webpack, tubopack) is misconfigured. top-level await is only available for ES Modules-style code, Check that bundler outputs ES Modules style code.

On the other hand, it makes sense to provide an API like buildSync() for those who want to write code synchronously. Frankly, I'm not really willing to do it, since the workaround is to use top-level await. But if it's easy to implement, I'm willing to try.

[bmulholland]

Hm, good points, I'll look into why it's not working. Thanks! Closing for now.