Addon Vitest: Resolve story test globs against the project root

[kasperpeulen]

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What I did

The bug

In a monorepo where the Vitest config lives above the Storybook package, addon-vitest finds zero story files — and nothing reports that as a problem. The Testing module shows a grey "Ran 0 tests", and storybook tools test run exits 0 with empty output. A broken setup looks identical to a green one.

Reported by @shilman on storybook-tmp/astryx.

The cause

The plugin uses two different roots without realizing it:

• It builds the story globs relative to the root Vitest was invoked with (the directory of the Vitest config file).
• It sets the project root to configDir/.. via viteFinal.

In the documented layout — vitest.config.ts next to .storybook — those are the same directory, so the bug is invisible. In a monorepo they differ, and the globs double up the package path:

astryx/
├── vitest.storybook.config.ts     ← storybookTest({ configDir: 'apps/storybook/.storybook' })
└── apps/storybook/.storybook/

step	value
glob from main.ts	../stories/**/*.stories.tsx
made absolute	astryx/apps/storybook/stories/**
relativized against astryx (invoking root)	apps/storybook/stories/**
resolved by Vitest against astryx/apps/storybook (actual root)	astryx/apps/storybook/apps/storybook/stories/** ✗

apps/storybook appears twice; nothing matches; Vitest logs No test files found.

The fix

Relativize the globs against the root the plugin actually returns, so the two agree by construction. One line, plus a regression test that fails without it. test.dir / test.root keep their existing precedence.

Results on the reporting repo

	before	after
test files discovered	0	155
stories tested	0	1451
exit code on tools test run	0 (empty output)	honest results, incl. 1 real failure that was hidden

Out of scope

A run that matches no story files still reports success — this PR removes the known cause, not the class. I prototyped a config-time assertion ("Storybook found N story files, none match the test patterns") and pulled it out: Vitest wraps config-hook errors in an AggregateError that drops the message entirely, so it failed loudly without saying why. That check needs to live where the addon controls the error surface. Follow-up PR.

Checklist for Contributors

Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

• stories
• unit tests
• integration tests
• end-to-end tests

Manual testing

Caution

This section is mandatory for all contributions. If you believe no manual test is necessary, please state so explicitly. Thanks!

Needs a monorepo whose Vitest config sits above the Storybook package:

1. Clone https://github.com/storybook-tmp/astryx at branch shilman/codex-10-6-beta-0, then pnpm install
2. pnpm -F @astryxdesign/build build && pnpm exec playwright install chromium
3. pnpm -F @astryxdesign/storybook dev
4. Open the Testing module in the sidebar and press Run tests

On next: "Ran 0 tests just now", server log says No test files found.
With this PR: 155 test files, 1451 stories run.

Also worth a spot check that a standard single-package sandbox (vitest.config.ts next to .storybook) still discovers the same tests as before, since this changes the root the globs resolve against.

Documentation

• Add or update documentation reflecting your changes
• If you are deprecating/removing a feature, make sure to update
  MIGRATION.MD

Checklist for Maintainers

• When this PR is ready for testing, make sure to add ci:normal, ci:merged or ci:daily GH label to it to run a specific set of sandboxes. The particular set of sandboxes can be found in code/lib/cli-storybook/src/sandbox-templates.ts

• Declare whether manual QA will be needed for this PR during the next release, through qa:needed or qa:skip

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Walkthrough

The Vitest plugin now prioritizes Storybook’s generated Vite root when resolving story globs. Tests cover repository-root and package-root invocation scenarios.

Changes

Vitest root resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Root resolution and validation code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/index.ts, code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/vitest-root.test.ts	The plugin prioritizes the Storybook Vite root before the invoking config root. Tests update Storybook mocks, provide Vite hook context, validate the returned configuration, and verify package-relative story include patterns for differing and matching roots.

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