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Error message: Failed to collect Storybook metadata

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Error: ✖ Failed to collect Storybook metadata
Could not find a supported Storybook viewlayer package. Make sure one is installed, or set CHROMATIC_STORYBOOK_VERSION.
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Users often get this message because Storybook is not installed as a dependency in their environment. This can happen in CI or locally if they’ve just cloned the project.

Strawman Be more direct about a possible solution.

Error: ✖ Failed to collect Storybook metadata
Could not find a supported Storybook view layer package. This can happen if the dependency hasn't been installed in your environment yet. Run `npm install` or `yarn` to make sure Storybook is installed. 

If Storybook is installed, you can also set CHROMATIC_STORYBOOK_VERSION.
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Created 2 years ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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tmeasdaycommented, May 19, 2021

Released 5.8.1 which reverts to something similar to the earlier behaviour, please try it out.

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jackmccloycommented, May 18, 2021

@domyen just wanted to give you a heads up that is also seems to happen if you use yarn v1 workspaces and install packages at the workspace root, rather than in individual projects (which isn’t exactly a great practice, but can be convenient for projects that use create-react-app).

the workaround is to list your current version of storybook as a dependency or devdependency in the project itself, but it’d be lovely if it worked w/o having to do this (as it did a month or so ago)