storybook-addon-playground

Storybook Addon Playground

Develop locally

Install dependencies and start

npm i
npm start

Go to localhost:6006

How to add to your Storybook project

Install

npm install -D storybook-addon-playground

Register addon

On your .storybook/main.ts file, add the following:

const config = {
  ...
  addons: [
    ...
    "storybook-addon-playground",
  ],
};

Load custom components and set Playground story

On your .storybook/preview.ts file, add the following:

...
import MyComponentsLibrary from 'my-components-library';
import MyIconsLibrary from 'my-icons-library';
...
const preview = {
  ...
  parameters: {
    playground: {
      // title of your story (including category prefix, if there is one)
      storyId: "playground",
      components: { ...MyComponentsLibrary, ...MyIconsLibrary },
      editorTheme: "light", // optional - set this to override your storybook's theme
      introCode: { jsx: `<div>Welcome to my Playground!</div>`, css: "" }, // optional - set this to introdoce a "welcome" code example
    },
  },
};

Render a story including the playground in the sidebar

Create a story with the following content:

import { withPlayground } from "../../src/decorators";

export default {
  title: "Playground",
  decorators: [withPlayground],
};

export const Playground = {};

Build

Vite

Vite is used to build the local Storybook for testing and dev purposes

Rollup

Rollup is used to build the addon for publishing

graph TD;
    subgraph ADDON
    A{{Rollup}}
    B[index.ts]
    C[manager.ts]

    D[Panel addon]
    E[Tool addon]

    F[withPlayground]
    G[PlaygroundPreview]
    H[react-live]

    I[Editor]
    J[useCopyToClipboard]
    K[usePlaygroundArgs]
    Q[useInitialCode]
    R[useBroadcastEditorChanges]
    S[usePlaygroundState]
    T[useEditorTheme]
    L[useToolbarActions]
    M[prettier]
    N[react-codemirror]

    O[Toolbar icon]

    P[Storybook Addon API]

    A -->|Entry| B
    A -->|Entry| C

    B -->|Exports| F

    P --> D
    P --> E

    E -->|Renders| O

    C -->|Registers Addons| P

    F -->|Renders in a story| G
    G ======>|Using lib| H

    D -->|Calls| Q
    D -->|Calls| R
    R -->|Uses| S
    D --->|Renders| I
    I ====>|Using lib| N
    I -->|Uses| L
    I -->|Uses| K
    I -->|Uses| T

    L ===>|Using lib| M
    L -->|Uses| J
    end

    subgraph UI
    X{{Vite}}
    Z["Storybook UI (.storybook - Testing and Development)"]
    X --> Z
    end

Changelog

1.2.0 (2024-01-18)

Features

• migrate to react-live (#35) (f47256b)