Programmatic way to launch Storybook

[azarenkovgd]

Is there any way to run storybook programmatically?
This would be especially useful for mono repositories, where you want to install and configure storybook once, and then use it many times.

For example:

import storybook from "@storybook/api"

storybook({
...some launch options that are usually passed to CLI
})

Many other js projects provide this capability, including webpack, vite and esbuild.

I have studied issue #146, but there is no adequate answer to this question. I understand that you can run the storybook cli in nodejs manually in the shell, but it's not very convenient.

[shilman]

Not really a public API, but available from @storybook/core-server:

storybook/code/lib/core-server/src/build-dev.ts

Lines 31 to 33 in 0546301

	export async function buildDevStandalone(
	options: CLIOptions & LoadOptions & BuilderOptions
	): Promise<{ port: number; address: string; networkAddress: string }> {

storybook/code/lib/core-server/src/build-static.ts

Line 44 in 0546301

export async function buildStaticStandalone(options: BuildStaticStandaloneOptions) {

[azarenkovgd]

Thank you!