react-styleguidist VS react-bootstrap

react-styleguidist

My most popular open source project, React Styleguidist, has over 10K stars on GitHub, and yet, I couldn’t manage to build a community around it, and to make it self-sufficient. The project is too big for one person to build it, and to manage issues and pull requests.

React Styleguidist is a tool that generates a living style guide for React components. This tool helps developers to document and showcase their components, making it easier for other developers to understand and use them. You can visit its official website to learn more: https://react-styleguidist.js.org/.

Because documentation is so important, our sample project has been preconfigured with React Styleguidist, a development environment for building React components. We’ll use this tool to document the components as we build them out.

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For many years I was enjoying working on my open source projects of all sizes: large like React Styleguidist or a tiny library that nobody else is using. However, the expectation that you owe someone free work to fix bugs in their projects and add features they need to do their job, the rude comments on the issues, the hit and run pull requests where you spend an hour reviewing the code and the author never comes back to answer your comments, made it less and less enjoyable, and my attempts to pretend that it doesn’t hurt my mental health became less and less successful.

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This is yet another tool that offers an interactive way of creating and sharing UI components. And there’s no better representation of how React Styleguidist works than this GIF. On the right window, you have the code. The left window is where that code is concurrently rendered into a UI. And if required, you can also test and directly edit the code on the rendered side.

So far, it seems that Storybook with it's interactive props and canvas playground is the most popular solution. Simplified versions, like Styleguidist or Docz do not provide enough props and canvas playground functionality to see them as alternatives. I would consider these two only valid documentation alternatives, but not for active development like Storybook.

react-styleguidist - Isolated React component development environment with a living style guide

GitHub stars: 22k GitHub link: https://github.com/react-bootstrap/react-bootstrap Documentation: https://react-bootstrap.netlify.app/docs/getting-started/introduction/

It has more than 21K stars on GitHub and more than 2.4 million weekly downloads on NPM, as of August 2023.

As of August 2023, React Bootstrap has got more than 21K stars on GitHub and is getting more than 2 million weekly downloads on NPM.

React Bootstrap is the rebuilt version of the popular frontend CSS framework for React. Each component of the React Bootstrap is built from scratch with no unneeded dependencies and is accessible by default.

I used react-bootstrap at first, recently discovered mantine and will likely use that in the future.

Next, we create a new component called CarsTable, responsible for rendering the table. We will use @tanstack/react-table for the table behavior and react-bootstrap for UI elements.

5. React Bootstrap

React-Bootstrap is compatible with various versions of Bootstrap. As such, you need to ensure you are using the correct combination of versions. React-Bootstrap currently has over 21.4K stars on Github. You can check the repo Here

These UI components and elements usually include Button, Navbar, Tooltip, Tab components, and more. Many UI libraries exist, including React Bootstrap, built on the popular Bootstrap CSS library, and Material-UI, one of the most popular UI component libraries for React.