3.0.0 > 3.1.6 breaks the addons, 'channel' is null.

[samkelleher]

A simple upgrade has rendered addons such as the options and knobs addon non-functional. The resulting exception causes storybook to fail to run.

It seems to stem from the 'addons channel' being null.

render.js:65 TypeError: Cannot read property 'removeListener' of null
    at WrapStory.componentWillUnmount (WrapStory.js:76)
    at ReactCompositeComponent.js:408
    at measureLifeCyclePerf (ReactCompositeComponent.js:75)
    at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper.unmountComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:407)
    at Object.unmountComponent (ReactReconciler.js:78)
    at Object.unmountChildren (ReactChildReconciler.js:146)
    at ReactDOMComponent.unmountChildren (ReactMultiChild.js:371)
    at ReactDOMComponent.unmountComponent (ReactDOMComponent.js:990)
    at Object.unmountComponent (ReactReconciler.js:78)
    at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper.unmountComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:417)

This is the line refered to:

this.props.channel.removeListener('addon:knobs:knobChange', this.knobChanged);

And the config.js:

import { configure, addDecorator } from '@storybook/react';
import { withKnobs } from '@storybook/addon-knobs';
import Global from '../src/components/Global';

const req = require.context('../src/components', true, /.stories.js$/);

function loadStories() {
    req.keys().forEach(filename => req(filename));
}

addDecorator(story => (
    <Global>
        {story()}
    </Global>
));

addDecorator(withKnobs);

configure(loadStories, module);

I tried adding the withKnobs call to the story itself, but made no difference. I also tried adding a setTimeout before calling withKnobs, also no change.

storiesOf('My Story', module)
    .addDecorator(withKnobs)

Gonna downgrade back to 3.0.0 where this works normally but can't seem to find an obvious call, but I know there have been a lot changes recently to storybook.

[shilman]

@samkelleher we have seen problems with peoples' npm setups. before you downgrade, can you clean out your node_modules and try a fresh install?

EDIT: also, if you have any yarn/npm lock files laying around, try nuking them too before you install.

[samkelleher]

thank @shilman I was just doing that as you wrote, I should have tried that first before reporting. My project has a shrinkwrap, deleting it solved my issues. Strange as I definitly had 3.1.6 of the storybooks packages in my modules directory.

thanks for the help and quick response today! 🙌🏻