Chromatic for Storybook
Visual testing addon for Storybook to catch UI regressions and visual bugs.
Testing npm MIT
Used in agent projects
53
0.4% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in testing
#17 of 40
by use in those projects
Downloads
5.3M
npm, last 7 days, @chromatic-com/storybook
GitHub stars
48
last push Oct 8, 2026
How Chromatic for Storybook is used
Chromatic for Storybook is a dependency in 53 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.4%), #17 of 40 in testing. The most used alternative there is Vitest. Projects that use it most often also use Storybook (100.0%), Vitest (92.5%), Playwright (JavaScript) (79.2%).
Often used with Chromatic for Storybook
| Storybook | 100.0% of Chromatic for Storybook projects · 88.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vitest | 92.5% of Chromatic for Storybook projects · 7.6× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 79.2% of Chromatic for Storybook projects · 9.0× more than average |
| Vite | 84.9% of Chromatic for Storybook projects · 3.7× more than average |
| Prettier | 77.4% of Chromatic for Storybook projects · 4.4× more than average |
| Testing Library | 56.6% of Chromatic for Storybook projects · 7.9× more than average |
| jsdom | 52.8% of Chromatic for Storybook projects · 9.8× more than average |
| Radix UI | 45.3% of Chromatic for Storybook projects · 3.8× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 2.0% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Chromatic for Storybook as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install @chromatic-com/storybook |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (36), Next.js (16), PHP (1) |
| Example projects | storybookjs/mealdrop, tangle-network/dapp, JesusFilm/core, thereactfoundation/react.foundation, epam/ai-dial-ui-kit |
Alternatives to Chromatic for Storybook
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitest npm Next-generation testing framework powered by Vite with native ESM. |
1,549 (12.2%) | 123M | 17.2K | MIT |
| Playwright (JavaScript) npm Cross-browser automation library for end-to-end testing. |
1,117 (8.8%) | 74.2M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |
| Testing Library npm Testing utilities for React encouraging testing user behavior. |
915 (7.2%) | 68.7M | 19.7K | MIT |
| Jest npm Delightful JavaScript testing framework with minimal configuration. |
702 (5.5%) | 46.3M | 45.6K | MIT |
| jsdom npm JavaScript implementation of web standards for testing DOM interactions. |
681 (5.4%) | 112M | 21.7K | MIT |
| pytest pypi Simple, powerful Python testing framework with fixtures and plugins. |
330 (2.6%) | 196M | 14.6K | — |
| Chai npm BDD/TDD assertion library for Node.js and browsers with expressive syntax. |
305 (2.4%) | 14M | 8,265 | MIT |
| Mocha npm Feature-rich JavaScript test framework for Node.js and browsers. |
281 (2.2%) | 12.6M | 22.9K | MIT |