Storybook Official Tutorial Code Along - Web Development

Explore how to connect Storybook to a React project and master the fundamentals of building components in isolation, with options to skip ahead to advanced Storybook and React Redux examples.

Explore the dom and the React virtual dom, compare direct dom manipulation with React rendering, and understand how state management drives dynamic web apps.

Discover how React’s virtual dom and declarative, component-based approach deliver fast, responsive UIs, and learn to bootstrap a project with Create React App using npm, Node.js, and hot reloading.

Open the react project in your editor and review readme, package.json, and package-lock.json to understand dependencies, scripts, and versioning; learn how gitignore and node_modules support clean deployment and collaboration.

Connect the React root to the DOM and render the application by wiring index.js with ReactDOM to the root div in index.html, using create react app scaffolding.

Start a local React development server with npm start, rendering the app to localhost:3000, while wiring together index.js, index.css, app.js, and app.css styling in a Create React App.

Explore functional components in React, learn how pure functions return JSX to build components, and understand how JavaScript and JSX work together to render a React app.

Master React fundamentals by comparing import versus require, embracing ES modules and arrow-function components, while noting hoisting and the shift toward functional programming in modern JavaScript.

Explore how React uses functional components to build a component tree with composite components, where a home page comprises title, description, and subscribe subcomponents. Master composite functions for reusable components.

Learn how to build reusable React components by creating a title component and passing props to customize text across home, contact, and about pages, laying the groundwork for state management.

Learn to build reusable React components by passing props from a parent to a child, destructuring props, and creating a contact page that reuses the title component.

Explore React hooks and state management using useState to build interactive components. Learn how local state and conditional rendering switch between pages, using a password example to gate access.

Learn to manage local state in React using the useState hook by wiring an input to a password state, handling onChange events, and conditionally rendering pages on user input.

Explore React fundamentals with a password-based page toggle, using state, props, and event handling, including useState, conditional rendering, and basic routing concepts.

Build a basic Storybook setup for React from scratch, install Storybook in a new React project, and explore stories, controls, and args to create interactive component previews.

Explore how Storybook is configured for web app projects, including local host setup on port 6006, main and preview configurations, addons, docs, and controls for component development.

Build a React counter component with Storybook, exploring component breakdown, isolated stories for a button and counter interface, and Storybook best practices from setup to props.

Design and test a basic React subcomponent: a button counter with props, onClick, and size, developed in isolation for Storybook with a focus on component trees and stories.

Learn to build a story for a React component from scratch in Storybook, configuring a default export and using args to control size and label.

Create dynamic Storybook stories using the args property to control button size and label, and compare large and small variants with css class changes.

Learn to use argTypes and controls in Storybook to create user-friendly stories by varying size and background color with archetypes.

Learn to automate documentation for web components with Storybook, using auto docs to generate stories, defaults, and controls for button variants like large and small counters.

Learn how to customize Storybook docs by adding descriptions, default values, and labels to controls, archetypes, and individual stories for clearer guidance.

Add a description and a default value for size in storybook arguments, and implement three counter button styles via css with a select option for version.

Explore css techniques for Storybook rendering by building and customizing counter buttons with various styles, hover transitions, borders, and box sizing, while introducing actions and mock state management.

Explore how storybook actions log click events using the synthetic base event object to test the button counter's on click behavior in stories.

Hook up live React components to Storybook and learn rendering fundamentals by building a counter with actions and state, connecting a local app at localhost:3000 and Storybook at localhost:6006.

Create storybook stories for a counter component using a mock state and events. Learn to export a default story, wire up the component, and simulate state changes.

Learn how to test interactions and events in Storybook by using within and user events to automate button clicks on a canvas-based counter, with play-driven tests that validate increments.

Set up a react storybook from scratch, integrate redux, and master advanced visual testing and composite actions, using degit templates, yarn, and a git workflow for collaboration.

Learn to build a task component using the Storybook CDD methodology, isolating components, creating stories with args, and testing UI variations for scalable, modular React development.

Configure storybook and its local server by updating main.js and preview.js, import index.css, and enable actions and controls to showcase a task component with multiple states.

Build and style a Storybook React task component with pinned and archived states using CSS formatting and prop-types to define the task shape and validate callbacks.

Utilize the Storybook a11y addon to test DOM accessibility with WCAG heuristics, identify color contrast issues, and configure settings to enforce accessible UI.

Build a composite React component for Storybook by assembling a task list. Map tasks by id and include onPinTask and onArchiveTask to show pinned, default, and archived permutations.

Explore building robust components with Storybook by constructing a task list with loading and empty states, pin-based ordering, accessible markup, and test-friendly data attributes, all in a web development tutorial.

Learn to set up a central Redux store with Redux Toolkit, create a tasks slice, and implement reducers to update task state via action payloads.

Connects React components to a Redux store by using dispatch and selectors to update task state. Demonstrates pinning and archiving tasks via a task slice and update task state action.

Discover how to mock a Redux store in Storybook using decorators and React Redux provider, configuring a task box state with tasks, status, and error.

Connect mock Redux data to Storybook stories by wrapping them with a mock store provider, using a mock task box state, and simulating pinned, loading, and empty states.

Summarize redux code and mock data, showing how to use useSelector and useDispatch to update task state, pin or archive tasks, and assemble components into a Storybook screen.

Learn to fetch remote API data in a store setup by dispatching fetch tasks in a useEffect, handling pending, fulfilled, and rejected states, and building an inbox screen.

Fetch tasks in a React inbox screen using create async thunk, handle pending, fulfilled, and rejected states, and mount with useEffect to dispatch tasks and show errors.

Wrap the inbox screen with a redux provider using the lib store and render it in the app. This introduces redux in storybook.

Create Storybook stories with a Redux store and mock API data using Mock Service Worker, rest handlers, and MSW decorators to simulate API requests and errors.

Wire the check box to archive tasks on click, propagate archived state through filters and Storybook stories, and demonstrate updates across inbox and task list in the Storybook tutorial.

Automate user interactions in storybook by using the play function and interactions addon to fire events, wait for DOM changes, and verify task pinning in a fully functional app.

Explore automating Storybook testing with Playwright, install the test runner with yarn, and run yarn test Storybook watch to verify rendering of stories and catch failures as unit tests.

Publish your Storybook online to share the UI work with teammates and potential employers, then build visual tests and automate with Chromatic and GitHub.

Export storybook as a static web app and publish it to Chromatic via a GitHub repository, then enable automatic deployments with GitHub actions.

Automate storybook deployments with a Chromatic ci workflow using a yaml file and GitHub secrets. Rebase merges trigger builds and enable visual testing, accessibility tests, and interaction testing in Chromatic.

Learn visual regression testing in Storybook with Chromatic and how to compare UI changes across builds. Manage feature updates with branches, push changes, and review baselines before merging.

Complete the course with your blue belt in storybook, mastering component driven development, testing, and deployment. Apply these skills to open source projects and ai integrations.