Course Introduction

Introduction

Let's understand what this tool is all about.

What is Storybook? Better React UI Component Development

Storybook and Component Driven, Atomic Design in React

Let's learn about the installation process of Storybook.

How to Install Storybook and Add Stories to React Components

Let's learn about the very basics of Storybook stories

Intro to Storybook Component Story Format and args

Let's understand what Storybook decorators are and how to create them.

How to use Storybook Decorators to Style Components

Let's dive into the addons that come with the default Storybook template.

The 9 Best Storybook Addons to Build Better Story Workflows

Let's customize Storybook theme to match our brand!

How to Customize the Storybook React Theme for Your Brand

We have finished the first module! Let's discuss what we learned.

Wrapping up

Storybook - How it works

Now that you've learned the basics, it's time to start working on MealDrop, the main project of this course.

Section overview

We will be looking at the template project that we will use in this course.

Accessing the project

Breaking down our use-case

How to Write an Atomic Component in Storybook

Adding styled components support in Storybook.

How to Add Styled Component Themes to Storybook

Making decorators smarter with the use of globals and parameters to allow for an interactive theme switching experience.

Set Storybook Themes With Decorator Global Values and Parameters

How to Connect Storybook to Figma

How to Compose Components in Storybook

Finalizing the feature and integrating it into the app.

How to Integrate Storybook Components Into a React App

We have finished the second module! Let's discuss what we learned.

Starting the main project

It is time to learn how to deal with components that do fetch requests.

Using a container pattern to deal with complex components.

Fetch Data for Storybook Components With Container Pattern

Using conditional logic to deal with fetch requests.

Add Conditional Logic to Storybook Compontent Data Fetching

How to Mock Storybook Data Fetching Requests With MSW

Conclusion on data fetching strategies in Storybook.

Dealing with fetch requests

Let's learn how to work with page components on Storybook.

Let's add the page templates to Storybook.

Adding PageTemplate and Redux support to Storybook

Let's analyze the HomePage component and add it to Storybook.

How to add Complex Components to Storybook

Let's analyze the restaurant detail page component and add it to Storybook, including deeplinking and React portals support.

How to Add Deeplinking and React Portals to Storybook

How to Mock Storybook App Loading Scenarios With MSW

Adding Pages to Storybook

It is time to learn testing strategies in Storybook.

Let's add the official Storybook ESLint plugin

How to Install the Storybook ESLint plugin

Let's write some interaction tests directly in Storybook!

How to Use React Testing Library and Interactions in Storybook

Let's use the Storybook test runner to automate our tests!

How to Automate Storybook Testing With Test Runner

How to Run Accessibility Testing in Storybook With Addon-a11y

We have finished the fifth module! Let's discuss what we learned.

Storybook and testing

Using Chromatic for automatic Storybook deployment.

Deploy Storybook on Chromatic for Integrated Development

Using Chromatic and Storybook for visual regression testing.

Visual Regression Testing with Storybook and Chromatic

We have finished the sixth module! Let's discuss what we learned.

Deploying our Storybook

Conclusion and extra resources

Final thoughts

Storybook is an open-source tool that helps you develop UI components in isolation. It runs in your codebase, but separately from your application. It's like a sandbox, allowing you to not get distracted by incomplete APIs, flaky data, and other external dependencies. It integrates with frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, and many others!

With Storybook, you can ease the development of a design system and share a common language with designers. QA's can get an overview and test functionalities in isolation. Stakeholders can use it for demo purposes. Overall, Storybook helps connect all of these people, greatly improving collaboration!

In this course, we will unleash the full potential of Storybook for React apps. We start from the basics of Storybook and later switch to a real world application, learning how to develop features directly in Storybook, saving lots of development time and at the same time, creating a living documentation of components and features.

You will learn how to break down features into atomic and composite components using [Component Driven Development](https://www.componentdriven.org/)

![Showing a component breakdown process](https://d2uusema5elisf.cloudfront.net/courses/storybook-for-react-apps/module_02/lesson_02.03/public/assets/component-breakdown.png)

You will see the power of addons, and how they help improve the development experience and the end quality of components. We will connect design tools, test accessibility, and much more.

![Figma connected to Storybook](https://d2uusema5elisf.cloudfront.net/courses/storybook-for-react-apps/module_02/lesson_02.06/public/assets/figspec-view.png)

You will also learn how to mock fetch requests, add Redux, theming and routing support to Storybook, and add full pages to it. You're going to even add entire pages to Storybook, allowing you to simulate all use cases you want in isolation for easy access!

![Full page in Storybook](https://d2uusema5elisf.cloudfront.net/courses/storybook-for-react-apps/module_04/lesson_04.04/public/assets/modal-working.gif)

On top of that, you'll be using the latest features of Storybook such as interactions, combining the power of Storybook wrappers for Testing library and Jest that run in the browser to write stories with automated interactions!

![Storybook test runner](https://d2uusema5elisf.cloudfront.net/courses/storybook-for-react-apps/module_05/lesson_05.04/public/assets/click-to-debug.gif)

Finally, you'll be setting up Chromatic, a cloud based tool that improves your Storybook experience by bringing you Storybook hosting and visual regression tests, in a way that will help you catch regressions but also improve the collaboration between you and your colleagues while making pull requests.

![Chromatic dashboard](https://d2uusema5elisf.cloudfront.net/courses/storybook-for-react-apps/module_06/lesson_06.02/public/assets/first-build.gif)

By the end of this course, you will be able to use Storybook to develop and document components, features, and pages in your work.
You'll also learn how Storybook helps you collaborate with your colleagues, both technical and non-technical (like designers and stakeholders)!

This is a course which will show you how to unleash the full potential of Storybook in the context of React applications.

Storybook for React Apps

Unleash the full potential of Storybook, adding features and pages

Tools to improve designer-developer collaboration

So, Storybook is just an extra tool in your project, but some concepts are very important when it comes to using it. If you're an experienced developer, maybe you can skip this lesson, although I'd recommend watching it because there's always something new that you might learn.

 approach, a development and design practice to build modular components, building UI from "bottom-up," where you start with the most basic components and progressively combine them up to the point of a page level.

This concept aligns really well with React development. When developing with React, basically everything is a component. As you can see in the article, 

, given a design, you will end up breaking it down into components. So, let's revisit that concept.

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## The concepts around Storybook

So, Storybook is just an extra tool in your project, but some concepts are very important when it comes to using it. If you're an experienced developer, maybe you can skip this lesson, although I'd recommend watching it because there's always something new that you might learn.

### Component-driven approach

Storybook strongly revolves around the [Component-Driven](https://www.componentdriven.org/) approach, a development and design practice to build modular components, building UI from "bottom-up," where you start with the most basic components and progressively combine them up to the point of a page level.

![](https://d2uusema5elisf.cloudfront.net/courses/storybook-for-react-apps/module_01/lesson_01.02/public/assets/cdd-part-1.png)
![](https://d2uusema5elisf.cloudfront.net/courses/storybook-for-react-apps/module_01/lesson_01.02/public/assets/cdd-part-2.png)
_Component driven development in steps_

This concept aligns really well with React development. When developing with React, basically everything is a component. As you can see in the article, [Thinking in React](https://beta.reactjs.org/learn/thinking-in-react), given a design, you will end up breaking it down into components. So, let's revisit that concept.

Yann Braga

Before diving deep into Storybook, it's important to learn about the key

Storybook strongly revolves around the component-driven approach, a development

and design practice of building user interfaces with modular components.

It works by building UI from bottom to top, one component at a time, starting

from the simplest like a button, or an input,

then going up and combining these components into features like a form, then

going even further to assembling pages and finally integrating those pages into

Breaking things down like that brings a lot of benefits, speed and efficiency

A lot of tools follow this concept including React.

In the Thinking in React article from the official documentation, it says that

React makes it easier to think in design systems and UI states,

and that's because it follows the component-driven development structure.

It mentions that you should start with the mock-up of the data as well as the

and then you can break that UI into a component hierarchy, which essentially

As an example, you've got an entire component which is called Filterable

Product Table, that is a composition of other components,

which could also be a composition of even inner components.

Once you've done that study, then you will have a component hierarchy.

Once you have that, you can start building your application.

You start building by the bottom specific components like this product category

and then you go to the product row, and then you go to the product table.

You keep going up all the way to finally getting into your application, which

There is also the concept of Atomic Design, a term from a book by Brad Frost

that explores component breakdown using scientific terms

to categorize them, where you start from the most atomic component, and they

This exercise really helps you simplify the complexity that is building

These concepts are pretty important to keep in your minds because they can

serve as a tool to improve the way we think and develop UI.

Although you don't need to necessarily follow 100% of them by the book, it's

But anyways, now that we are familiar with these terms, we should get going and