The @storybook/react-dom-shim package saw frequent releases between March 2023 and August 2025. Version 7 dominated in 2023, with a high point of 11 releases in May. Version 8 became the focus in 2024, and Version 9 in 2025. The number of releases per month fluctuated, with peaks in early 2023, early 2024, and mid 2025, and lower activity in late 2024 and August 2025.
@storybook/react-dom-shim provides a compatibility layer for Storybook, specifically targeting environments where a full react-dom implementation might be unavailable or unnecessary. It offers a lightweight shim that allows Storybook components, especially those testing rendering behavior, to function correctly without requiring the entire react-dom library. This optimizes bundle size and improves performance, particularly beneficial in testing or documentation contexts where full DOM interactions are not essential. It's primarily intended for internal Storybook usage and library authors.
The npm package @storybook/react-dom-shim saw significant growth from March 2024 to August 2025, peaking at 34.5 million downloads in July 2025. While download numbers were consistently high, September 2025 data is incomplete, showing a much lower value of 7.3 million, likely due to the month still being in progress.
