Core: Fix fail to load main.ts error message

code/lib/cli/src/upgrade.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { withTelemetry } from '@storybook/core-server';
 import {
   UpgradeStorybookToLowerVersionError,
   UpgradeStorybookToSameVersionError,
+  UpgradeStorybookUnknownCurrentVersionError,
 } from '@storybook/core-events/server-errors';
 
 import chalk from 'chalk';
@@ -22,7 +23,6 @@ import {
 } from '@storybook/core-common';
 import { automigrate } from './automigrate/index';
 import { autoblock } from './autoblock/index';
-import { PreCheckFailure } from './automigrate/types';
 
 type Package = {
   package: string;
@@ -189,26 +189,11 @@ export const doUpgrade = async ({
   );
   const configDir = userSpecifiedConfigDir || inferredConfigDir || '.storybook';
 
-  let mainConfigLoadingError = '';
-
-  const mainConfig = await loadMainConfig({ configDir }).catch((err) => {
-    mainConfigLoadingError = String(err);
-    return false;
-  });
+  const mainConfig = await loadMainConfig({ configDir });
 
   // GUARDS
   if (!storybookVersion) {
-    logger.info(missingStorybookVersionMessage());
-    results = { preCheckFailure: PreCheckFailure.UNDETECTED_SB_VERSION };
-  } else if (
-    typeof mainConfigPath === 'undefined' ||
-    mainConfigLoadingError.includes('No configuration files have been found')
-  ) {
-    logger.info(mainjsNotFoundMessage(configDir));
-    results = { preCheckFailure: PreCheckFailure.MAINJS_NOT_FOUND };
-  } else if (typeof mainConfig === 'boolean') {
-    logger.info(mainjsExecutionFailureMessage(mainConfigPath, mainConfigLoadingError));
-    results = { preCheckFailure: PreCheckFailure.MAINJS_EVALUATION };
+    throw new UpgradeStorybookUnknownCurrentVersionError();
   }
 
   // BLOCKERS
@@ -293,32 +278,6 @@ export const doUpgrade = async ({
   }
 };
 
-function missingStorybookVersionMessage(): string {
-  return dedent`
-      [Storybook automigrate] ❌ Unable to determine Storybook version so that the automigrations will be skipped.
-        🤔 Are you running automigrate from your project directory? Please specify your Storybook config directory with the --config-dir flag.
-      `;
-}
-
-function mainjsExecutionFailureMessage(
-  mainConfigPath: string,
-  mainConfigLoadingError: string
-): string {
-  return dedent`
-    [Storybook automigrate] ❌ Failed trying to evaluate ${chalk.blue(
-      mainConfigPath
-    )} with the following error: ${mainConfigLoadingError}
-
-    Please fix the error and try again.
-  `;
-}
-
-function mainjsNotFoundMessage(configDir: string): string {
-  return dedent`[Storybook automigrate] Could not find or evaluate your Storybook main.js config directory at ${chalk.blue(
-    configDir
-  )} so the automigrations will be skipped. You might be running this command in a monorepo or a non-standard project structure. If that is the case, please rerun this command by specifying the path to your Storybook config directory via the --config-dir option.`;
-}
-
 export async function upgrade(options: UpgradeOptions): Promise<void> {
   await withTelemetry('upgrade', { cliOptions: options }, () => doUpgrade(options));
 }

code/lib/core-common/src/utils/load-main-config.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
-import path from 'path';
+import path, { relative } from 'path';
 import type { StorybookConfig } from '@storybook/types';
 import { serverRequire, serverResolve } from './interpret-require';
 import { validateConfigurationFiles } from './validate-configuration-files';
+import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
+import {
+  MainFileESMOnlyImportError,
+  MainFileEvaluationError,
+} from '@storybook/core-events/server-errors';
 
 export async function loadMainConfig({
   configDir = '.storybook',
@@ -18,5 +23,40 @@ export async function loadMainConfig({
     delete require.cache[mainJsPath];
   }
 
-  return serverRequire(mainJsPath);
+  try {
+    const out = await serverRequire(mainJsPath);
+    return out;
+  } catch (e) {
+    if (!(e instanceof Error)) {
+      throw e;
+    }
+    if (e.message.match(/Cannot use import statement outside a module/)) {
+      const location = relative(process.cwd(), mainJsPath);
+      const numFromStack = e.stack?.match(new RegExp(`${location}:(\\d+):(\\d+)`))?.[1];
+      let num;
+      let line;
+
+      if (numFromStack) {
+        const contents = await readFile(mainJsPath, 'utf-8');
+        const lines = contents.split('\n');
+        num = parseInt(numFromStack, 10) - 1;
+        line = lines[num];
+      }
+
+      const out = new MainFileESMOnlyImportError({
+        line,
+        location,
+        num,
+      });
+
+      delete out.stack;
+
+      throw out;
+    }
+
+    throw new MainFileEvaluationError({
+      location: relative(process.cwd(), mainJsPath),
+      error: e,
+    });
+  }
 }

code/lib/core-common/src/utils/validate-configuration-files.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import slash from 'slash';
 import { once } from '@storybook/node-logger';
 
 import { boost } from './interpret-files';
+import { MainFileMissingError } from '@storybook/core-events/server-errors';
 
 export async function validateConfigurationFiles(configDir: string) {
   const extensionsPattern = `{${Array.from(boost).join(',')}}`;
@@ -20,9 +21,6 @@ export async function validateConfigurationFiles(configDir: string) {
   }
 
   if (!mainConfigPath) {
-    throw new Error(dedent`
-      No configuration files have been found in your configDir (${path.resolve(configDir)}).
-      Storybook needs "main.js" file, please add it (or pass a custom config dir flag to Storybook to tell where your main.js file is located at).
-    `);
+    throw new MainFileMissingError({ location: configDir });
   }
 }

code/lib/core-events/package.json

@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
     "ts-dedent": "^2.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "chalk": "^4.1.0",
     "typescript": "^5.3.2"
   },
   "publishConfig": {

code/lib/core-events/src/errors/server-errors.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { bold, gray, grey, white, yellow, underline } from 'chalk';
 import dedent from 'ts-dedent';
 import { StorybookError } from './storybook-error';
 
@@ -394,6 +395,99 @@ export class NoMatchingExportError extends StorybookError {
   }
 }
 
+export class MainFileESMOnlyImportError extends StorybookError {
+  readonly category = Category.CORE_SERVER;
+
+  readonly code = 5;
+
+  public documentation =
+    'https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/issues/23972#issuecomment-1948534058';
+
+  constructor(
+    public data: { location: string; line: string | undefined; num: number | undefined }
+  ) {
+    super();
+  }
+
+  template() {
+    const message = [
+      `Storybook failed to load ${this.data.location}..`,
+      '',
+      `It looks like the file tried to load/import an ESM only module.`,
+      `Support for this is currently limited in ${this.data.location}.`,
+      `You can import ESM modules in your main file, but only as dynamic import.`,
+      '',
+    ];
+    if (this.data.line) {
+      message.push(
+        white(
+          `In your ${yellow(this.data.location)} file, line ${bold.cyan(
+            this.data.num
+          )} threw an error, which looks like this:`
+        ),
+        grey(this.data.line)
+      );
+    }
+
+    message.push(
+      '',
+      white(`Convert the static import to an dynamic import ${underline('where they are used')}.`),
+      white(`Example:`) + ' ' + gray(`await import(<your ESM only module>);`),
+      '',
+      'For more information, please read the documentation link below.'
+    );
+
+    return message.join('\n');
+  }
+}
+
+export class MainFileMissingError extends StorybookError {
+  readonly category = Category.CORE_SERVER;
+
+  readonly code = 6;
+
+  readonly stack = '';
+
+  public readonly documentation = 'https://storybook.js.org/docs/configure';
+
+  constructor(public data: { location: string }) {
+    super();
+  }
+
+  template() {
+    return dedent`
+      No configuration files have been found in your configDir: ${yellow(this.data.location)}.
+      Storybook needs "main.js" file, please add it.
+
+      You can pass a --config-dir flag to tell Storybook, where your main.js file is located at).
+    `;
+  }
+}
+
+export class MainFileEvaluationError extends StorybookError {
+  readonly category = Category.CORE_SERVER;
+
+  readonly code = 7;
+
+  readonly stack = '';
+
+  constructor(public data: { location: string; error: Error }) {
+    super();
+  }
+
+  template() {
+    const errorText = white(
+      (this.data.error.stack || this.data.error.message).replaceAll(process.cwd(), '')
+    );
+
+    return dedent`
+      Storybook couldn't evaluate your ${yellow(this.data.location)} file.
+
+      ${errorText}
+    `;
+  }
+}
+
 export class GenerateNewProjectOnInitError extends StorybookError {
   readonly category = Category.CLI_INIT;
 
@@ -468,3 +562,18 @@ export class UpgradeStorybookToSameVersionError extends StorybookError {
     `;
   }
 }
+
+export class UpgradeStorybookUnknownCurrentVersionError extends StorybookError {
+  readonly category = Category.CLI_UPGRADE;
+
+  readonly code = 5;
+
+  template() {
+    return dedent`
+      We couldn't determine the current version of Storybook in your project.
+
+      Are you running the storybook CLI in a project without Storybook?
+      It might help if you specify your Storybook config directory with the --config-dir flag.
+    `;
+  }
+}

code/lib/core-server/src/build-dev.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { telemetry, oneWayHash } from '@storybook/telemetry';
 
 import { join, relative, resolve } from 'path';
 import { deprecate } from '@storybook/node-logger';
-import dedent from 'ts-dedent';
+import { dedent } from 'ts-dedent';
 import { readFile } from 'fs-extra';
 import { MissingBuilderError } from '@storybook/core-events/server-errors';
 import { storybookDevServer } from './dev-server';

code/yarn.lock

@@ -5528,6 +5528,7 @@ __metadata:
   version: 0.0.0-use.local
   resolution: "@storybook/core-events@workspace:lib/core-events"
   dependencies:
+    chalk: "npm:^4.1.0"
     ts-dedent: "npm:^2.0.0"
     typescript: "npm:^5.3.2"
   languageName: unknown