Adding Global CSS to an Angular Library Storybook

This tutorial assumes you have configured an Angular Library + Storybook following this post.

Most of the time, when creating components, you'll probably want to rely on some global css style. That enables you to use generic classes (like bootstrap classes), or theming and so on. However the Storybook documentation lacks examples on how to do it.

For this example we first have to install Bootstrap. Go to your workspace root folder and run npm install bootstrap.

Once you have done that, now you can link the boostrap css to your Storybook project.

To do so, you just have to add the css path to the styles in your angular.json file, in the styles list of your storybook project like in the following example.

"styles": ["node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css"],

See the entire file and example workspace on Github.

I have edited the default MyLibComponent from the Angular Library basic example and it looks like this with the Bootstrap styling.

You might also want to check this out:

Angular Library + Storybook

Saulo Dias ・ Sep 19 '21

#angular #component #library #storybook

Comments

[Rob Levin]

Thanks man, love it when fellow devs have little tips like this when I need it :-)

Hey, so I set up my project with nx and it's a library, so my angular.json edit was pretty much what you say but I had to add the entire section:

"storybook": {
...
  "architect": {
    "build": {
      "options": {
        "styles": ["libs/ag/styles/common.min.css"]
      }
    }
  },
...
},

Maybe it'll help someone