UI Component Development with StorybookJS

by @leocaseiro

Jon Snow just started to work as a Frontend Developer in the A-Team

Jon Snow's first user story

Jon Snow's first user story

TLDR;


From native dropdown


to UI Dropdown

After following the readme.md of the current project, and setting up the project to run locally, Jon Snow starts to read the source code.

Where is the Documentation?


I can't find your components docs.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

Jon snow starts to search for the dropdown component. After a few hours of investigation, he realizes that there's a dropdown in the 17th screen of the application

Can you show me how to navigate to the blade number 17 in the project?


The test environment is down and I can't find your demo application.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

After Coffee Time, the test environment is back and the team shows Jon Snow that he needs an ID to authenticate and be able to run the application locally.

I’ve finished my implementation, could you please review my code?

I’ve finished all acceptance criteria.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

Jon Snow identified 3 problems

LACK OF DOCUMENTATION


NAVIGATION LOCKED INTO THE APPLICATION FLOW


NO REUSABLE COMPONENTS

What is Storybook?

https://storybook.js.org/

Getting Started with Storybook

// install storybook and setup for React
npx -p @storybook/cli sb init


npm run storybook

Setup typesscript with Babel for Storybook

// typescript
npm i @types/node @types/react @types/storybook__react –save-dev

// create-react-app typescript issue
npm install babel-core@8.0.4 –save-dev

//.storybook/config.js

import '../src/index.scss'; // SASS

const req = require.context('../src/@components/.', true, /.Story.tsx$/);

function loadStories() {
    req.keys().forEach(filename => req(filename));
}

configure(loadStories, module);

Include stylesheets and scripts from cdn

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cdn..." />

<script type=“text/javascript" src="http://cdn..."></script>

.storybook/preview-head.html

Hello World Story

import React from 'react';
import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/react';
import { Button } from '@storybook/react/demo';

storiesOf('Button', module)
  .add('with text', () => (
    <Button>Hello Button</Button>
  ))
  .add('with some emoji', () => (
    <Button><span role="img" aria-label="so cool">😀 😎 👍</span></Button>
  ));

./src/Button/Button.Story.tsx

@storybook/addon’s

…

import { … } from '@storybook/addon-<name>/react';

addDecorator()
storiesOf('Button', module)
.add('with some emoji', () => (
    <Button><span role="img" aria-label={label}>😀 😎 👍</span></Button>
  ));

./src/Button/Button.Story.tsx

npm install @storybook/addon-<name> --save-dev

// TypeScript
npm install @types/storybook__addon-<name>  --save-dev
import '@storybook/addon-<name>/register';

.storybook\addons.js

@addon-viewport

npm install @storybook/addon-viewport --save-dev

// TypeScript
npm install @types/storybook__addon-viewport --save-dev

import '@storybook/addon-viewport/register';

.storybook\addons.js

https://github.com/storybooks/storybook/tree/master/addons/viewport

@addon-knobs

npm install @storybook/addon-knobs --save-dev

// TypeScript
npm install @types/storybook__addon-knobs  --save-dev

import '@storybook/addon-knobs/register';

.storybook\addons.js

https://github.com/storybooks/storybook/tree/master/addons/knobs

…

import { text } from '@storybook/addon-knobs/react';

const label = text('Label', 'so cool');

storiesOf('Button', module)
.add('with some emoji', () => (
    <Button><span role="img" aria-label={label}>😀 😎 👍 💯</span></Button>
  ));

Release?

Why IIS?

I think you can release it on
GitHub Pages!

@scientistcoco

Setup GitHub Pages

Settings -> Options -> GitHub Pages

https://help.github.com/enterprise/2.15/user/categories/github-pages-basics/

Release and publish on GitHub Pages

Docs: https://github.com/storybooks/storybook-deployer

{
  "scripts": {
    "deploy-storybook": "storybook-to-ghpages",
    "deploy-storybook-upstream": "storybook-to-ghpages –remote upstream"
  }
}

package.json

// Install storybook-deployer

npm i @storybook/storybook-deployer --save-dev

Storybook in action

Access via Access via: https://githubenterprise.domain.com/pages/user/project

Storybook can help to fix 4 problems

NO REUSABLE COMPONENT

LACK OF DOCUMENTATION

SELENIUM ON GITHUB PAGES

NAVIGATION LOCKED INTO THE APPLICATION FLOW

Jon Snow got AWARDS for making everyone’s life easier and is nominated the king in the north!

And everyone starts shouting:

“The King in the north!
The king in the north!”

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