We're the core maintainers of Storybook, Ask Us Anything!

Norbert de Langen — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:42:39 +0000

Hey Dev.to, we’re the core maintainers of Storybook ask us anything. Here today are Norbert de Langen, Michael Shilman, Filipp Riabchun, Igor Davydkin, Daniel Duan, and Tom Coleman. We’ll be answering questions from 2pm ET on.

Storybook is the most popular tool for developing UI components. The open source project has grown to over 450 contributors, 26k GitHub stars, and 1M npm downloads/month. It’s now used by teams at Dropbox, Slack, Airbnb, Squarespace and many more. Furthermore, we just announced that Storybook has full-time maintenance.

Common Questions
Why should you consider Storybook?
Storybook helps you develop components in isolation. This is handy because it enables you to mock hard-to-reach states and edge cases while developing the component. In practice, you end up building durable components much faster.

What view layers does Storybook support?
React, React Native, Vue, Angular, Polymer, Mithril, Marko, raw HTML, and more soon.

How do you try Storybook?
Install it here

Are there any examples online?
Airbnb has a lovely datepicker. More examples here.

What’s a good way to learn Storybook?
The Storybook Tutorial is a great start.

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We're the core maintainers of Storybook, Ask Us Anything!