Supercharge Your UI Development with Storybook
Tags: storybook, frontend, nextjs, documentation
Published: 2023-03-19 20:06:57

"Storybook for Component-Driven Development: A Comprehensive Guide" - Learn how Storybook simplifies UI component development by allowing developers to view and interact with components in isolation. Discover the benefits of using Storybook to document component-driven development and get started with it today.

**Why Storybook is Useful for Documenting Component-Driven Development**
Storybook is valuable for documenting components in a clear and accessible way. It's especially helpful for large-scale projects with multiple developers. Teams can create their own stories to review each other's work and catch errors early on. It also helps improve code quality by isolating and testing components in various states. This reduces debugging time and enhances the overall stability of the application.

**How to Get Started with Storybook**
Getting started with Storybook is relatively easy. Here are the basic steps:

Install Storybook using your preferred package manager. For example, you can use the following command with npm:

`npm install -D @storybook/react`

Create a configuration file for Storybook. You can use the following command to create a basic configuration file:

`npx sb init`

Note: depending upon your styling, you may have to configure this further. check official [documentation ](https://storybook.js.org/docs/react/get-started/why-storybook)

Create your first story. You can create a new file in your project's src directory. Here is a small demo how I created a story of one of my component.

src/components/ProgressBar/ProgressBar.stories.js. Here's an example of what the file might look like:

```
import React from "react";
import { Meta, Story } from "@storybook/react";
import CircularProgressBar from "../components/CircularProgressBar";
import { CircularProgressBarProps } from "@/types/components";

export default {
  title: "Components/CircularProgressBar",
  component: CircularProgressBar,
  layout: "fullscreen",
} as Meta;

const Template: Story<CircularProgressBarProps> = (args) => (
  <CircularProgressBar {...args} />
);

export const Default = Template.bind({});
Default.args = {
  children: (
    <div className="flex items-center justify-center text-lg font-bold text-gray-700 rounded-full bg-white h-20 w-20 ">
      75%
    </div>
  ),
};

export const CustomColors = Template.bind({});
CustomColors.args = {
  progressStart: 50,
  progressEnd: 100,
  barColor: "#10B981",
  className: "bg-gray-200",
  children: (
    <div className="flex items-center justify-center text-lg font-bold text-gray-700 rounded-full bg-slate-400 h-20 w-20">
      75%
    </div>
  ),
};

export const SlowSpeed = Template.bind({});
SlowSpeed.args = {
  progressStart: 0,
  progressEnd: 90,
  speed: 50,
  barColor: "#F59E0B",
  children: (
    <div className="flex items-center justify-center text-lg font-bold text-gray-700 rounded-full bg-slate-400 h-20 w-20">
      {}
    </div>
  ),
};
```

This example creates a story for a ProgressBar that wraps a child and show a progress. component has been shown three different states default, custom color and custom speed. 

Start the Storybook server. You can use the following command:

`npm run storybook`

This will start the Storybook

A screenshot of storybook dashboard, and how you can customise component with props.

![A demo of how it looks like on storybook dashboard.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/dbqd4m2tz859zl5orcmz.png)