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Overview

What Storybook does

Storybook is an open source tool for building UI components and pages in isolation. It streamlines UI development, testing, and documentation by allowing developers to create components independently and showcase them interactively in an isolated development environment.

What people use it for

  • Component development
  • Design system documentation
  • Visual regression testing
  • UI component showcase
  • Team collaboration

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The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Storybook.

  • Requires JavaScript framework knowledge for full utilization
  • Limited native support for non-web platforms compared to specialized tools

Capabilities

Features

  • Component isolation

    Component isolation capability

  • Interactive development

    Interactive development capability

  • Visual testing

    Visual testing capability

  • Documentation generation

    Documentation generation capability

  • Accessibility testing

    Accessibility testing capability

  • Interaction testing

    Interaction testing capability

  • Addons ecosystem

    Addons ecosystem capability

  • Hot module reloading

    Hot module reloading capability

  • React

    Integration with React

  • Vue

    Integration with Vue

  • Angular

    Integration with Angular

  • Svelte

    Integration with Svelte

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

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Is Storybook free and open source?

Yes, Storybook is completely free and open source with source code hosted on GitHub. It has 2,282 contributors and approximately 83.58 million monthly installations.

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What frameworks does Storybook support?

Storybook integrates with React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, and has been extended to support React Native, Android, iOS, and Flutter for mobile development.

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What are the main capabilities of Storybook?

Storybook enables component development in isolation, interaction testing, visual testing, documentation, and sharing components with designers and stakeholders.

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How is Storybook maintained?

Storybook is maintained by a community of 2,282 contributors. It originated from a startup called Kadira, was handed to the community in 2017, and has been community-driven since Storybook 3.0.

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Behind it

Who makes Storybook

Company
Chromatic (Storybook maintainers)
Based in
San Francisco, CA

Timeline

Storybook over time

  1. Launch2017-05-01

    Storybook 3.0 released as community-driven project

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  2. Milestone2017-04-01

    Community takes over Storybook after transition from Kadira, with Norbert de Langen leading the initiative

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  3. Founded2016-04-01

    Storybook 1.0 developed and launched by startup Kadira with team including Nadie Anuththara, Arunoda Susiripala, Aruna Herath, and others

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