Ask HN: Is it time for a new Storybook?

Re:Ask HN: Is it time for a new Storybook? by matthewwolfe on Sunday November 20, 2022 @08:29PM (#33687594)

I’ve tried out storybook 7 recently and it does seem a bit better, but I do agree with you that storybook is less than ideal. I see storybook in the same way I see a complex webpack config, I have no idea how it works and once it is finally set up I don’t touch it. I would love to see something as easy as Jest to install with a simple interface for writing and testing react code.

I think storybook tries to do too much, and I’d like to see a really dead simple interface with Vite or similar where I can easily prototype and test stuff based on *.stories.tsx or similar.

I don’t need all the stupid addons, just give me a dev server with navigation and routing built in, and an easy way to hide the whole interface to simulate a normal web page.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it time for a new Storybook? by samhuk on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:22PM (#33687925)

I agree with your comparison to Webpack (and also brought back all of my pre-esbuild memories...). I've worked at some places where a simple component library repo has >100 LoC storybook config files and I was always confused why it had to be like that.

Thanks for your feedback. This is helping me a lot towards understanding what we want from a "component workshop" that perhaps Storybook and others (like Ladle) don't either have or do the way we want. :)

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