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What I did

Svelte CSF files (.stories.svelte) can now call preview.meta() in place of defineMeta(), and they compile to CSF4 factories. Linear: SB-2212. This PR is stacked on #36669, which adds definePreview for Svelte.

How to review

Review it commit by commit:

1. test(svelte): show placeholders for the version and paths in error snapshots. You can skim this one. It isn't about factories. The error snapshots interpolated the package version and file URLs with ${…}. Running Vitest with -u replaced those with the current version and my absolute paths, which would break on the next release. A snapshot serializer in vitest-setup.ts now prints v<version> and <cwd>, so -u can't bake them in again.
2. fix(csf-tools): read factory stories exported with export specifiers. This is the only change to core. It's small, but it affects every renderer, so read it closely.
3. feat(svelte): accept preview.meta() in Svelte CSF files. Mostly AST parsing and code generation. You can skim it, because commit 4 shows what it does. The public types in preview.ts are worth a look.
4. test: the test cases for preview.meta() in Svelte CSF files. Review this one. Each test shows source in and output out: the compiled module, the Vitest transform, the index entries, the errors, the runtime and the types.

Commit 3 alone fails the existing tests, because the updated error messages in their snapshots are in commit 4.

Fixes for the Codex review, each with its tests:

5. fix(csf-tools): skip local helpers behind export specifiers in factory files.
6. fix(svelte): accept preview.type<>().meta() in Svelte CSF files.

#36693 (meta.type<>()) was merged into this branch, so its commits are part of this PR now.

Fixes for the review by @huang-julien:

7. fix(svelte): accept preview.meta().type<>() and an exported meta in Svelte CSF files. The indexer also throws 0004 now, where it dropped the file without an error. Commit 9 removes the exported meta again.
8. test: the test cases for preview.meta().type<>() and an exported meta.
9. fix(svelte): reject an exported meta in Svelte CSF files. Core's CsfFile registers export const meta = preview.meta() as a story (in React CSF4 files too), so the Vitest transform fails. An exported meta throws 0004 until core is fixed.

The merge commits d32b290e920 and 8ed5136b2dc bring in #36669, with its type fix for a runes component without props and a merge of next.

Before and after

The same stories file, compiled with defineMeta() (CSF3, as today) and with preview.meta() (CSF factories, new). This is the real output of the Svelte compiler (production mode) followed by the Svelte CSF transform. I replaced the compiled Svelte component with a comment, because it is the same in both outputs.

1. CSF3 source (Button.stories.svelte):

<script module>
  import { defineMeta } from '@storybook/svelte-vite';
  import Button from './Button.svelte';

  /** A button for the main action */
  const { Story } = defineMeta({
    component: Button,
    args: { size: 'large' },
  });
</script>

<!-- The primary button -->
<Story name="Primary" args={{ label: 'Primary', primary: true }} />

<Story name="Secondary" args={{ label: 'Secondary' }} tags={['!test']}>
  {#snippet template(args)}
    <Button {...args} />
  {/snippet}
</Story>

2. CSF3 output (unchanged by this PR):

import 'svelte/internal/disclose-version';
import 'svelte/internal/flags/legacy';
import { defineMeta } from '@storybook/svelte-vite';
import Button from './Button.svelte';
import * as $ from 'svelte/internal/client';

const $__meta = {
	component: Button,
	args: { size: 'large' },
	parameters: {
		docs: {
			description: { component: "A button for the main action" }
		}
	}
};
const { Story } = defineMeta($__meta);
// … the compiled Svelte component, the same in both …
import { createRuntimeStories } from "@storybook/svelte/internal/svelte-csf/create-runtime-stories";

const $__stories = createRuntimeStories(Button_stories, $__meta);

export default $__meta;

export const __namedExportsOrder = ["Primary", "Secondary"];

const $__Primary = {
	...$__stories["Primary"],
	tags: ["svelte-csf-v5"]
};

const $__Secondary = {
	...$__stories["Secondary"],
	tags: ['!test', "svelte-csf-v5"]
};

export {
	$__Primary as Primary,
	$__Secondary as Secondary
};

3. CSF factories source:

<script module>
  import preview from '#.storybook/preview';
  import Button from './Button.svelte';

  /** A button for the main action */
  const { Story } = preview.meta({
    component: Button,
    args: { size: 'large' },
  });
</script>

<!-- The primary button -->
<Story name="Primary" args={{ label: 'Primary', primary: true }} />

<Story name="Secondary" args={{ label: 'Secondary' }} tags={['!test']}>
  {#snippet template(args)}
    <Button {...args} />
  {/snippet}
</Story>

4. CSF factories output:

import 'svelte/internal/disclose-version';
import 'svelte/internal/flags/legacy';
import preview from '#.storybook/preview';
import Button from './Button.svelte';
import * as $ from 'svelte/internal/client';

const $__meta = preview.meta({
	component: Button,
	args: { size: 'large' },
	parameters: {
		docs: {
			description: { component: "A button for the main action" }
		}
	}
});
const { Story } = $__meta;
// … the compiled Svelte component, the same in both …
import { createRuntimeStories } from "@storybook/svelte/internal/svelte-csf/create-runtime-stories";

const $__stories = createRuntimeStories(Button_stories, $__meta.input);

export const __namedExportsOrder = ["Primary", "Secondary"];

const $__Primary = $__meta.story({
	...$__stories["Primary"],
	tags: ["svelte-csf-v5"]
});

const $__Secondary = $__meta.story({
	...$__stories["Secondary"],
	tags: ['!test', "svelte-csf-v5"]
});

export {
	$__Primary as Primary,
	$__Secondary as Secondary
};

The differences in the output:

• The meta is preview.meta({…}), not a plain object, and Story comes from it.
• createRuntimeStories gets $__meta.input, because preview.meta() copies its input.
• Each story is wrapped in $__meta.story({…}).
• There is no export default. Core finds the meta through the stories, as in any other factories file.

With const meta = preview.meta({…}); const { Story } = meta; in the source, the output uses the name meta and adds no $__meta.

Choices to review:

• CsfFile (core) reads factory stories behind export specifiers. Svelte CSF doesn't compile to export const Primary but export { $__Primary as Primary } to avoid variable name collisions. Before this PR, CsfFile didn't read the tags behind meta.story() in that form, so Vitest also tested stories tagged !test. A Vitest-transform test covers this. In factory files, CsfFile now skips specifier exports that aren't factory stories. It keeps stories that are re-exported from another file.
• The parser, the compiler and the indexer share one meta detection (utils/import-source.ts). A file is a factories file when the meta call's object is imported from a path that ends with /preview. CsfFile uses the same rule.
• Three new errors, each with a heading in ERRORS.md:
  • 0010: a file calls both defineMeta() and preview.meta().
  • 0011: preview.meta() is called, but preview isn't imported from a preview file.
  • 0012: a file calls preview.meta() more than once. Without this error, the indexer silently dropped stories and Vitest crashed.
• Story props types:
  • Args that meta didn't set are required.
  • A story with fixed content (asChild, or a template without parameters) needs no args.
  • Story children make the component's children arg optional.
  • A render snippet in meta sets the args type.
  • Args<typeof Story> gives the args that a template receives.
• Known limit: a meta with no component but a typed render snippet requires args on a story that has only children. Such a story shows fixed content, so asChild is the fix.
• The template stories in template/stories/svelte-csf/ are unchanged. Sandboxes use a CSF3 preview, and SB-2215 switches them. Factory versions of the templating and interactions stories, plus a Button file, run as renderer tests.

Evidence

• Compiler: inline snapshots of the full compiled module for both meta shapes. The existing defineMeta snapshots don't change.
• Vitest transform: the real addon-vitest path is the Svelte compiler, then Svelte CSF, then core's vitestTransform. The snapshot shows meta: $__meta, and the !test story isn't tested.
• Indexer and parsers: index entries with tags for 4 import shapes, plus the new errors.
• Runtime: the renderer's Vitest config now has the svelteCsf() plugin. Each factory story runs with Story.run(), and its play function checks what renders. composeStories also runs, but only at runtime: its types need a default export.
• Types: type-checks.svelte has @ts-expect-error cases, and svelte-check checks them. I checked each error message by hand.
• Invariants hunt: about 400 generated inputs went through the real pipeline. It found the 0012 case. A defineMeta file gives byte-identical output before and after this PR.
• Sandbox (svelte-kit/skeleton-ts, with definePreview):
  • addon-vitest in Chromium passes 13 tests, including a factory .stories.svelte file that reads the SvelteKit $app/state mock.
  • svelte-check catches a wrong arg type in a factory .stories.svelte file.
  • In the UI, play functions pass, autodocs shows the component description and the source snippets, and MDX <Meta of> and <Canvas of> work with a factory module.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way. The change adds a new way to write Svelte CSF meta. defineMeta files are unchanged.

Blast Radius: small.

• In Svelte, the meta detection is shared code. The tests and the hunt show that defineMeta output doesn't change.
• In core, CsfFile behaves differently only for export { a as b } in a factories file.

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!

1. Run a sandbox: yarn task sandbox --start-from auto --template svelte-kit/skeleton-ts.

2. In .storybook/main.ts, set stories to ["../src/factories/*.stories.svelte"] and remove previewAnnotations.

3. Replace .storybook/preview.ts with:

   import addonDocs from '@storybook/addon-docs';
   import { definePreview } from '@storybook/sveltekit';
   
   export default definePreview({ addons: [addonDocs()], tags: ['vitest'] });

4. Add src/factories/Button.stories.svelte:

   <script module lang="ts">
     import preview from '../../.storybook/preview';
     import Button from '../stories/Button.svelte';
   
     const { Story } = preview.meta({ component: Button, tags: ['autodocs'], args: { size: 'large' } });
   </script>
   
   <Story name="Primary" args={{ label: 'Primary', primary: true }} />

5. Run yarn storybook. Check that the story renders a large primary button, and that its Docs page shows the story.

6. Run yarn vitest --run --project storybook. The story passes.

7. Remove label from the story args and run yarn check. svelte-check reports that label is missing.

Documentation

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

The docs for Svelte factories come with SB-2215.

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

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The changes add Svelte CSF factory metadata discovery, indexing, compilation, typing, and story execution coverage. Core CSF parsing also recognizes factory-backed stories exported through specifiers.

Changes

Svelte CSF factory support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Factory metadata discovery code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/utils/import-source.ts, code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/...	Metadata helpers and AST extractors recognize defineMeta() and imported preview.meta() calls. They collect factory status, metadata identifiers, and Story names, including names from chained meta.type<>() calls.
Indexer validation and parser errors code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/indexer/*, code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/utils/error/parser/extract/*, code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/ERRORS.md, code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/svelte/module-nodes.test.ts, code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/indexer/parser.test.ts, code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/analyse/story/attributes*.test.ts	The indexer recognizes factory metadata and validates Story declarations. Parser diagnostics and documentation cover invalid preview imports, missing Story components, mixed metadata APIs, and repeated factory calls.
Factory metadata and runtime story generation code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/post-transform/*, code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/vitest-transform.test.ts, code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/post-transform/index.test.ts, code/renderers/svelte/vitest.config.ts, code/renderers/svelte/vitest-setup.ts	The compiler passes factory metadata into runtime story generation and uses factoryMeta.story(annotations) for factory stories. Compiler and Vitest transform tests cover generated output; Vitest setup normalizes error snapshots.
Factory Story component and types code/renderers/svelte/src/preview.ts, code/renderers/svelte/src/public-types.ts, code/renderers/svelte/src/public-types.test.ts, code/renderers/svelte/src/__test__/svelte-csf-factories/type-checks*.svelte	The preview attaches a typed Story component to metadata. Its props cover rendering modes and argument requirements; public Args types infer factory-story args.
Factory story fixtures and execution tests code/renderers/svelte/src/__test__/svelte-csf-factories/*	Fixtures exercise story rendering, play callbacks, reactive scope, context, and templates. Tests run recognized story exports and compose a story.
Core factory-story re-exports code/core/src/csf-tools/CsfFile.ts, code/core/src/csf-tools/CsfFile.test.ts	Core CSF parsing recognizes factory calls in re-exported declarations and marks factory-backed stories. Tests cover aliases and distinguish local factory stories from ordinary imported or re-exported stories.

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code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/utils/import-source.ts (1)

87-87: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Check every declarator, not only the first one.

findMeta reads only statement.declarations[0]. Consider a file that writes const a = 1, { Story } = preview.meta({}). The meta call is in the second declarator, so findMeta does not detect it. The file then fails with MissingDefineMetaVariableDeclarationError, and the message does not explain the cause. The old code had the same limitation. Downstream consumers also read declarations[0], so changing only this loop is not enough. Pick one of these fixes:

• Reject multi-declarator meta declarations with a clear error.
• Record the matching declarator and pass it to every consumer.

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Review comment at @code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/utils/import-source.ts
at line 87:
Update findMeta and its downstream consumers to inspect every declarator and
record the one whose initializer calls preview.meta, then use that matching
declarator instead of declarations[0]. Alternatively, explicitly reject
multi-declarator meta declarations with a clear error; ensure the selected
behavior prevents the misleading MissingDefineMetaVariableDeclarationError.

code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/vitest-transform.test.ts (1)

14-17: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use vi.mock with spy: true and set the behavior in beforeEach.

This mock uses a factory and sets getStoryTitle inline. The test guidelines do not allow that pattern. Use vi.mock('storybook/internal/common', { spy: true }). Then set vi.mocked(getStoryTitle).mockReturnValue('Button') in beforeEach.

♻️ Proposed change

-vi.mock('storybook/internal/common', async (importOriginal) => ({
-  ...(await importOriginal<typeof import('storybook/internal/common')>()),
-  getStoryTitle: () => 'Button',
-}));
+vi.mock('storybook/internal/common', { spy: true });
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.mocked(getStoryTitle).mockReturnValue('Button');
+});

Also import getStoryTitle from storybook/internal/common, and import beforeEach from vitest.

As per coding guidelines: "Use vi.mock() with the spy: true option for all package and file mocks" and "Implement mock behaviors in beforeEach blocks".

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Review comment at
@code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/vitest-transform.test.ts around
lines 14 - 17:
Replace the factory mock for `storybook/internal/common` with `vi.mock` using
`spy: true`, and configure `getStoryTitle` to return `Button` in a `beforeEach`
block. Import `getStoryTitle` and `beforeEach` as needed.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @code/core/src/csf-tools/CsfFile.ts:
- Line 784: When registering a specifier export that resolves to a factory
story, preserve that status in its `__stats` metadata. Update the
specifier-export registration path to set `__stats.factory` from
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stories.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at
@code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/vitest-transform.test.ts:
- Around line 14-17: Replace the factory mock for `storybook/internal/common`
with `vi.mock` using `spy: true`, and configure `getStoryTitle` to return
`Button` in a `beforeEach` block. Import `getStoryTitle` and `beforeEach` as
needed.

Review comments at @code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/utils/import-source.ts:
- Line 87: Update findMeta and its downstream consumers to inspect every
declarator and record the one whose initializer calls preview.meta, then use
that matching declarator instead of declarations[0]. Alternatively, explicitly
reject multi-declarator meta declarations with a clear error; ensure the
selected behavior prevents the misleading
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@coderabbitai The two nitpicks:

• vitest-transform.test.ts: fixed in f0e7dda. It now uses vi.mock(..., { spy: true }) and sets getStoryTitle in beforeEach.
• findMeta only reads the first declarator: I'm leaving this out. defineMeta had the same limit before this PR, and a meta declaration that shares a const with another variable is not a real pattern.

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@JReinhold Thanks for the fix and the guidance.

• vitest-transform.test.ts: Verified that the current code uses vi.mock(..., { spy: true }) and sets getStoryTitle in beforeEach. This addresses the test nitpick.
• findMeta: Understood. Keep the existing first-declarator limit. I will not press for multi-declarator support in this PR.

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Learning: In code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/utils/import-source.ts, findMeta reads only the first declarator in each VariableDeclaration. The maintainer accepts this limit because defineMeta had the same limit before preview.meta() support. Metadata declarations that share a const statement with another variable are not an expected Svelte CSF authoring pattern; do not request multi-declarator support as a nitpick.

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Review comments at @code/core/src/csf-tools/CsfFile.ts:
- Around line 780-808: In the export-processing logic around isImported and
storyIsFactory, register local factory stories in _storyExports when decl is a
VariableDeclarator; exclude imported and source-re-exported stories, which have
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• code/core/src/csf-tools/CsfFile.test.ts
• code/core/src/csf-tools/CsfFile.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/post-transform/index.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/post-transform/remove-export-default.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/vitest-transform.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/indexer/parser.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/analyse/story/attributes.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/analyse/story/attributes/identifiers.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/compiled/nodes.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/svelte/module-nodes.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/utils/import-source.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/vitest-setup.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/vitest.config.ts

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Review comments at @code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/utils/import-source.ts:
- Line 150: Update findMeta to pass the declaration initializer through
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• code/renderers/svelte/src/__test__/svelte-csf-factories/meta-type.stories.svelte
• code/renderers/svelte/src/__test__/svelte-csf-factories/svelte-csf-factories.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/__test__/svelte-csf-factories/type-checks-meta-type.svelte
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/post-transform/index.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/compiler/vitest-transform.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/indexer/parser.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/indexer/parser.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/compiled/nodes.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/compiled/nodes.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/compiled/stories.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/svelte/fragment-nodes.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/svelte/module-nodes.test.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/parser/extract/svelte/module-nodes.ts
• code/renderers/svelte/src/svelte-csf/utils/import-source.ts

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Confidence Score: 3/5

[Medium impact] Adds factory pattern support to Svelte story files.

Fix the dropped factory-story aliases and the unresolved same-statement parsing failure before merging.

Findings

1.  Aliased factory stories disappear ▶
2.  Same-statement stories fail to load ▶

Summary

Adds preview.meta() support to Svelte CSF files and compiles their stories into CSF factories.

• Svelte stories can use preview.meta() and export named factory stories.
• Svelte's parser and indexer recognize factory metas from preview imports.
• Core reads factory stories exported through named specifiers.
• Svelte factory stories get typed args, templates, and child content.
• Svelte error snapshots use placeholders for changing version and path details.

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