native storybook unable to resolve babel aliases

I had a working storybook that broke when upgrading to RN 0.50. It can no longer resolve the babel aliases. The package was created with react-native init

RN: 0.50.3 Storybook: 3.2.16

My babelrc:

{
  "presets": ["flow", "react-native"],
  "plugins": [
    ["babel-plugin-module-resolver", {
      "root": ["."],
      "alias": {
        "crypto": "./src/polyfills/modules/crypto/index.js",
        "xenon": "./src"
      }
    }]
  ],
  "env": {
    "test": {
    },
  },
}

[alj1s]

Looks to be due to a breaking change in RN 0.50. See https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/023ac57337b351959d443133c3c09607c4ffc800

Can be resolved by creating a rn-cli.config.js file with the following contents:

module.exports = {
  getEnableBabelRCLookup() {
    return true;
  },
};

(taken from https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.50.0)

I’ve not looked in to how storybook resolves references, is this approach just a workaround or the best way forward?

[alanbueno]

any news regarding this one? same thing here, app works fine but when running storybook babel’s not able to resolve any alias while pointing the --projectRoot storybook instead of replacing the app entry point