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How to preview component with react portal using storybook.js

I implemented a Popper component using popper.js, and I used React's Portal to render popper element.

And now I want to preview my popper component, but It fails to create portal on storybook.js

Here's my approach.

.storybook/preview.js

import { ThemeProvider } from 'emotion-theming';
import { Global } from '@emotion/react';
import { theme, normalize } from 'custom-theme';

export const parameters = {
  actions: { argTypesRegex: '^on[A-Z].*' },
  controls: {
    matchers: {
      color: /(background|color)$/i,
      date: /Date$/,
    },
  },
};

export const decorators = [
  Story => (
    <>
      <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
        <Global styles={normalize} />
        {Story()}
        <div id="popper-root"></div>
      </ThemeProvider>
    </>
  ),
];

Portal.tsx

import { ReactNode, useMemo } from 'react';
import { createPortal } from 'react-dom';

interface IPortal {
  children: ReactNode;
  portalId: string;
}

const Portal = ({ children, portalId }: IPortal) => {
  const portalElement = useMemo<HTMLElement | null>(
    () => document.getElementById(portalId),
    [portalId],
  );

  if (!portalElement) {
    throw new Error(`Undefined Portal Id : ${portalId}`);
  }

  return createPortal(children, portalElement);
};

export default Portal;

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Is there any way to show component using react portal on storybook? If not, is there other way to preview it other than testing it on react project?

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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I was able to do a workaround on this by adding <div id="popper-root"></div> to my ComponentStory Template.

But One thing is if I render story with portal open, it cannot find popper-root.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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I have got a root element id in storybook to use for the portal. And I have used it for the React/Next.js portal. Now it's working well.

  • Storybook root element <div id="docs-root"></div>
  • portal element selector document.getElementById('docs-root)
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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Add preview-body.html, next to preview.js, with this:

<div id="popper-root"></div>
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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