Reader small image

You're reading from  React 16 Tooling

Product typeBook
Published inApr 2018
Reading LevelBeginner
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781788835015
Edition1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Right arrow
Authors (2):
Adam Boduch
Adam Boduch
author image
Adam Boduch

Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.
Read more about Adam Boduch

Christopher Pitt
Christopher Pitt
author image
Christopher Pitt

Christopher Pitt is a principal developer for SilverStripe in Wellington, New Zealand. He usually works on open source software, though sometimes you'll find him building compilers and robots.
Read more about Christopher Pitt

View More author details
Right arrow

Summary


This chapter was the focus of a tool called Storybook. Storybook provides React developers with a sandboxed environment that makes it easy to develop React components on their own. This can be difficult when the only environment you have is the application that you're working on. Storybook provides a level of development isolation.

First, you learned how to install the global Storybook command-line utility and how to use this utility to get Storybook set up in your create-react-app projects. Next, you learned how to write stories that show different perspectives of a component.

Then, you learned that a good portion of Storybook functionality comes from add-ons. You learned that Actions help with logging and that links provide a mechanism for navigation beyond the default. You also learned how to write documentation for React components using Storybook. We closed the chapter with a look at building static Storybook content.

In the next chapter, you'll explore the React tooling available...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Chapter
You have been reading a chapter from
React 16 Tooling
Published in: Apr 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788835015

Authors (2)

author image
Adam Boduch

Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.
Read more about Adam Boduch

author image
Christopher Pitt

Christopher Pitt is a principal developer for SilverStripe in Wellington, New Zealand. He usually works on open source software, though sometimes you'll find him building compilers and robots.
Read more about Christopher Pitt