Issue with Storybook 9 and Rolldown-Vite

I recently updated to Storybook 9 and in parallel started using rolldown-vite. I found that storybook 9 worked fine before updating to rolldown-vite, and storybook 8 works fine with rolldown-vite, but the combination caused problems.

Cause/trigger

I've narrowed at least one of the issues down to using a render function that renders a component that imports from import '@storybook/react-vite'.

Reproduction

To reproduce:

1. pnpm build-storybook
2. pnpm dlx http-server storybook-static --port 6006 --silent
3. Navigate to http://localhost:6006/?path=/story/repro--default
4. Open the console, see the error: chunk-N3U7HZRZ-DqlWfFHk.js:2 Uncaught ReferenceError: __STORYBOOK_MODULE_PREVIEW_API__ is not defined
5. Open helper.tsx, comment out import.
6. Rebuild storybook
7. Refresh the storybook browser tab (make sure to clear cache)
8. It should now load fine