[Bug]: `userEvent.click()` not working as expected after upgrading Storybook to 8.x about storybook

[kasperpeulen]

Could it be related to this issue?

testing-library/user-event#1075 (comment)

[allozaur]

hmmm, it seems so! i just re-checked on Chrome and Safari and userEvent.click() actually worked...

Also switching to fireEvent worked for Firefox, but that still seems like rubbing the problem under the rug, rather than fully addressing it... I know it's on Testing Library's team to fix that, but still this can make a lot of people scratch their heads.

The strange thing tho is that in latest versio nof 7.x the problem was not present and the issue you referenced is there since 2022, long time before the latest release of 7.x. I think that this should be investigated regardless of the workaround that you shared in your message, @kasperpeulen

[kasperpeulen]

In 7.x we used an older version which didnt had this bug. But this older version had other bugs that had no workaround.. So we decided it was most sensible to upgrade.

[jaens]

testing-library/user-event looks unmaintained at the moment, no pull requests merged for ~7 months, no response to a question asking about maintenance status for over a month.

Not really a good situation since Storybook is using it as a foundational dependency and re-exporting it. 🥲