Vite does not show a spinner while loading first story

[tmeasday]

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[tmeasday]

So the issue appears to be that it takes a long time to fetch the project annotations, for whatever reason [1]. We should probably just set the view to showPreparingStory before the annotations have even loaded? -- the problem here is that we don't know if the first entry is a story or a doc (in which case we'd prefer showPreparingDocs) until we load the index, which happens after the annotations.

Perhaps we should reverse that and load the index first?

[1] I think in the example I am looking at (Inkline), that's because the preview file loads a barrel file with all the components:

https://github.com/tmeasday/inkline/blob/ec9cc9a3fa353270889fc1488d06a641ec0c00ed/.storybook/preview.js#L4

[tmeasday]

• Load index in parallel to preview.js
• Show the preview compiling bar while waiting on index.

[shilman]

Boo-yah!! I just released https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/releases/tag/v7.0.0-beta.30 containing PR #20425 that references this issue. Upgrade today to the @next NPM tag to try it out!

npx sb@next upgrade --prerelease

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