Emma Britnor

Leveraging Storybook for Component Driven Development outside of your classic Component Library.

How can you combine visual documentation, interaction simulation, and unit testing all in the same file? Learn how to unify your component workflow with Storybook.

Leveraging Storybook for Component Driven Development outside of your classic Component Library.
#1about 2 minutes

Addressing the challenges of scaling large web applications

Large applications often suffer from duplicated work and hard-to-reuse components, which component-driven development helps to solve.

#2about 5 minutes

Best practices for designing flexible and reusable component APIs

Adopt principles like single responsibility, composition, and render props to create modular and maintainable component APIs from the start.

#3about 6 minutes

Getting started with Storybook for isolated component development

Use Storybook to build UI components in isolation, write stories to document different states, and get auto-generated documentation.

#4about 2 minutes

Handling complex components with state and API calls

Replicate complex component behaviors in Storybook by mocking API calls with MSW and managing global state with decorators.

#5about 3 minutes

Integrating user interactions and Figma designs into Storybook

Use the play method to script user interactions within stories and integrate Figma designs directly for better design-to-code consistency.

#6about 2 minutes

Leveraging stories for UI and visual regression testing

Import stories directly into React Testing Library for UI-driven testing and use Chromatic for automated visual regression testing.

#7about 2 minutes

Using Storybook to build and maintain shared libraries

Well-documented components in Storybook make it easier to identify reusable patterns and extract them into a shared component library.

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