Package
@storybook/addon-essentials
Curated addons to bring out the best of Storybook
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 3.2m
- -24% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 10
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 1 year ago
- v8.6.14
- GitHub stars
- 91.1k
- 10.5k forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 1,581 / 273
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 13,006
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
3,168,585 downloads last week, 16,758,124 in the last month. The 12-month change of -24% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 8280 in total
- Latest version
- 8.6.14, 16 May 20251 year ago
- First published
- 7 Dec 2019
- Last push to GitHub
- 24 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 1,581
- Open pull requests
- 273
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 13,006
- Dependents on npm
- 348
Major versions
- v8 first release 8.0.0, 11 Mar 2024
- v7 first release 7.0.0, 31 Mar 2023
- v6 first release 6.0.0, 11 Aug 2020
- v5 first release 5.3.0, 11 Jan 2020
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 7.6.24 | 6 Mar 2026 |
| 8.6.18 | 6 Mar 2026 |
| 8.6.17 | 18 Feb 2026 |
| 7.6.23 | 18 Feb 2026 |
| 8.6.16 | 17 Feb 2026 |
| 7.6.22 | 17 Feb 2026 |
| 7.6.21 | 17 Dec 2025 |
| 8.6.15 | 17 Dec 2025 |
| 8.6.14 | 16 May 2025 |
| 8.6.13 | 16 May 2025 |
| 8.6.12 | 2 Apr 2025 |
| 8.6.11 | 28 Mar 2025 |
| 8.6.10 | 26 Mar 2025 |
| 8.6.9 | 24 Mar 2025 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 18 kB
- Dependencies (10)
ts-dedent@storybook/addon-docs@storybook/addon-actions@storybook/addon-measure@storybook/addon-outline@storybook/addon-controls@storybook/addon-toolbars@storybook/addon-viewport@storybook/addon-highlight@storybook/addon-backgrounds- Peer dependencies (1)
storybook
npm install @storybook/addon-essentials- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@storybook/addon-essentials@8.6.14/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/@storybook/addon-essentials@8.6.14/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/@storybook/addon-essentials@8.6.14
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @percy/storybook | 74.8k | - | 13 days ago | ESM only | - |
| chromatic | 5.5m | - | 2 days ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| storybook-addon-test-codegen | 48.7k | - | 2 months ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
Indexability: Indexed.