Setting up Storybook without Vitest/Playwright

[mary-ext]

Summary

I'm setting up Storybook on this project for the first time with the pnpm create storybook@latest command as instructed in the getting started page, and I'm faced with a sudo prompt

it does seem that this is coming from the Playwright installation

is there a way to skip this? I'm not confident on giving Playwright CLI sudo access to install Chromium, and I don't currently plan on doing any sort of browser testing with Vitest and Playwright, so I'd rather skip this.

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[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @mary-ext! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the storybook team.

The sudo prompt appears because Playwright tries to install browser binaries, which can require elevated permissions. You can skip installing Playwright (and Vitest) during Storybook setup by using the --skip-install flag with the CLI, like this:

npx storybook@latest init --skip-install

If you use the interactive setup, make sure not to select any testing features—this will also prevent Playwright and Vitest from being installed. There isn’t a config file or environment variable to skip these; the CLI flag and setup prompts are the way to control it.
More details on these options are in the Storybook CLI source and addon postinstall logic.

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