TanStack React: Surface story render errors to Storybook

[jperezmart]

Closes #36714

What I did

createStoryRouter rendered route errors with a fixed defaultErrorComponent (Story did something wrong : …), so a story whose component throws while rendering never reached Storybook: the story test (@storybook/addon-vitest) passed and the UI showed the router fallback instead of Storybook's error overlay.

Rethrowing from defaultErrorComponent alone isn't enough, because TanStack Router's global catch boundary catches the rethrown error. This PR rethrows from defaultErrorComponent and creates the story router with disableGlobalCatchBoundary: true, so the error propagates to Storybook like it does with @storybook/react-vite.

Verified in a real project (Storybook 10.6.1, TanStack Router 1.170.18, @storybook/addon-vitest + Chromium) by applying the same change to the installed framework: a story that throws on render now fails its test with the original error and stack, and ~270 working stories still pass.

Checklist for Contributors

Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

• stories
• unit tests
• integration tests
• end-to-end tests

Manual testing

1. Run a sandbox: yarn task --task sandbox --start-from auto --template tanstack-react-router/default-ts

2. Add a story whose component throws while rendering:

   function Boom(): never {
     throw new Error("boom");
   }
   
   export default { title: "Repro/Throws", component: Boom };
   export const Throws = {};

3. Open the story in Storybook: it shows Storybook's error overlay with Error: boom (before: the inline text Story did something wrong : Error: boom).

4. Run the story tests (vitest run --project storybook) on that file: the test fails with Error: boom (before: it passed).

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Walkthrough

createStoryRouter now throws route errors instead of rendering an inline fallback. It also disables TanStack Router’s global catch boundary. A test checks both behaviors.

Changes

Route error propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Route error handling code/frameworks/tanstack-react/src/routing/decorator.tsx, code/frameworks/tanstack-react/src/routing/decorator.test.ts	The router’s default error component throws the supplied route error, and the router disables its global catch boundary. The test verifies both behaviors.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 71fe5

The router error behavior is covered, but the new test does not follow the required dependency-mocking convention. Align the test setup before merging; no production failure is established.

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code/frameworks/tanstack-react/src/routing/decorator.test.ts (1)

223-226: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Verify the test’s dependency mocks.

The test file does not mock @tanstack/react-router or createStoryRouter dependencies with vi.mock(..., { spy: true }), as required by the applicable test guidelines.

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Update the test setup around createStoryRouter in decorator.test.ts to mock its
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[jperezmart]

@coderabbitai Thanks for the review. Regarding the nitpick on decorator.test.ts (lines 223-226): I'm leaving the test without vi.mock on purpose. It asserts the options of the real router that createStoryRouter builds, the same way the other tests in this file use real TanStack Router routes without mocks, since what they check is the router's actual behavior. Mocking @tanstack/react-router wouldn't add coverage here.

If the maintainers prefer the vi.mock(..., { spy: true }) style for this case, I'm happy to change it.

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@jperezmart Thanks for the clarification. I checked code/frameworks/tanstack-react/src/routing/decorator.test.ts. The existing tests use real TanStack Router routes, and this test checks the real router’s options and error callback.

A mock or spy is not needed for these assertions. I withdraw the nitpick; no change is needed.

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Learnt from: jperezmart
URL: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/36715

Timestamp: 2026-10-10T18:58:03.669Z
Learning: In code/frameworks/tanstack-react/src/routing/decorator.test.ts, the Vitest tests intentionally use real TanStack Router routes to check createStoryRouter behavior. The error-handling test checks the real router's disableGlobalCatchBoundary option and invokes its defaultErrorComponent to verify rethrowing. Do not request vi.mock('tanstack/react-router') or spy mode solely for these assertions.

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