Chromatic CLI not building storybook

[stefan-cross]

Hello,

I am having issues getting chromatic cli to build the storybook after the intial run... It hangs and doesnt appear to create any artifacts in the /var/... folder. I raised this on SO the other day but thought it might be worth raising here also.

In order to get chromatic to build the storybook I have to exectute the following:

./node_modules/.bin/chromatic --project-token=xxxxfooxxxx

Let me know if theres more info that might help... Or if you would rather the detials were lifted out of the SO post...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65094064/chromatic-cli-not-building-storybook

[jtloomos]

This has been reported by another user via Intercom (https://app.intercom.com/a/apps/zj7sn9j1/inbox/inbox/conversation/27253892088)

[sean-rallycry]

If it is the same issue I am encountering, I see the following in the build-storybook.log:

Starting: --silent build-storybook -- --output-dir C:\Users\refuz\AppData\Local\Temp\chromatic--8916-TLKmiTwitUfY
node: bad option: --silent

I am running node v15.5.1, yarn v1.22.4, and npx v7.3.0, running the command from Powershell.

[sean-rallycry]

I believe this line of code is why the workaround proposed by the OP is effective:

chromatic-cli/bin/tasks/build.js

Line 33 in c6964c9

clientArgs: [isJsPath ? npmExecPath : '', isYarn ? '' : 'run', '--silent'].filter(Boolean),

[ghengeveld]

I've made a prerelease for the fix, can you verify it works? yarn add chromatic@5.5.1-dev.0

Update, I've now also added a timeout of 10 minutes for running the build script. yarn add chromatic@5.5.1-dev.1

[stefan-cross]

Awesome, I can confirm that has fixed things for myself, updated https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65094064/chromatic-cli-not-building-storybook/65633940#65633940

[stefan-cross]

Not sure what the process is now, shall I close this?

[ghengeveld]

No need, it'll be auto-closed when the PR gets merged.

[manoadamro]

same problem in v5.6.2