# Storybook Websocket Channel
Storybook Websocket Channel is a channel for Storybook that can be used when the Storybook Renderer should communicate with the Storybook Manager over the network.
A channel can be created using the `createChannel` function.
```js
import createChannel from '@storybook/channel-websocket';
const channel = createChannel({ url: 'ws://localhost:9001' });
```
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