@storybook/core – dll/storybook_ui-manifest.json does not exist after installation

[sawyerh]

Describe the bug
After bootstrapping a project with @storybook/react v5.3.11 and running start-storybook -p 6006, I received the following error in the CLI:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'toJson' of null
    at Watching.handler (/[my project]/node_modules/@storybook/core/dist/server/dev-server.js:84:17)

After adding additional logging to dev-server.js to get some more useful debug info, it appears that this is due to the following error:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/[my project]/node_modules/@storybook/core/dll/storybook_ui-manifest.json'

When I look in the @storybook/core/dll/ directory, there is nothing in it.

I've tried deleting my node_modules and installing from scratch, but get the same results.

System:

  System:
    OS: macOS 10.15.2
    CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6267U CPU @ 2.90GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.13.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.13.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.19.1 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.13.7 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.13.0/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 80.0.3987.87
    Firefox: 71.0
    Safari: 13.0.4
  npmPackages:
    @storybook/react: ^5.3.11 => 5.3.11

Additional context
Potentially related to #9707?

[sawyerh]

Looks like this was fixed in 5.3.12

[shilman]

Definitely related to #9707 - I need to be super careful with the release until this gets fixed. cc @ndelangen