storybook-addon-contributors

Find the right person to talk to about a component without leaving Storybook.

Live demo

The Contributors panel lists the people who have worked on the component a story shows, most relevant first. Use it to find someone to ask a question, request a review from, or get an update from. You don't need git or any accounts: recent work counts most, and the list comes from your repository's history when Storybook is built.

You also get:

• Recent changes, linked to their pull requests
• Who is no longer active in the repository
• Which components changed in the last week, marked in the sidebar
• The same people on the component's Docs page

Install

Requires Storybook 10 with @storybook/addon-docs, which new Storybook projects include by default.

npm install --save-dev storybook-addon-contributors

// .storybook/main.ts
export default {
  addons: ["storybook-addon-contributors"],
};

Deploying

How it works:

• The contributor list is built from your git history when Storybook builds.
• The deployed Storybook is a static site. It doesn't need the repository, a server, or any tokens.
• The build needs the full git history. Most hosts clone only the latest commits, which leaves older contributors out of the list.

Fetch the full history before building:

• Vercel: set the environment variable VERCEL_DEEP_CLONE=true.

• GitHub Actions (for example, publishing to Chromatic or GitHub Pages): set fetch-depth: 0 on the checkout step.

  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    with:
      fetch-depth: 0

• Any other host or CI: use this build command.

  git fetch --unshallow || true && npm run build-storybook