storybook VS react-styleguidist

Compare storybook vs react-styleguidist and see what are their differences.

storybook

Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation. Made for UI development, testing, and documentation. (by storybookjs)

react-styleguidist

Isolated React component development environment with a living style guide (by styleguidist)
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storybook react-styleguidist
321 18
82,727 10,791
0.7% 0.1%
10.0 4.4
about 12 hours ago 2 months ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

storybook

Posts with mentions or reviews of storybook. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-17.
  • Storybook not picking up tailwindcss
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Apr 2024
    [Bug]: Configuration with TailwindCss Next.js using Tailwind with Storybook
  • Astro.js as an alternative to Next.js: pushing the limits
    7 projects | dev.to | 17 Apr 2024
    Astro has no runtime. This means no unit tests. This also means no Storybook for your Astro components (although, they’re working on it!)
  • Release Radar • March 2024 Edition
    14 projects | dev.to | 7 Apr 2024
    If you're into UI development, then you need to know about Storybook. It's a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation. The latest version brings some big improvements for testing and documentation with built-in visual testing. There's also React Server Component support, improved controls for React and Vue projects, as well as improved Vite architecture, Vitest testing, and Vite 5 support. Check out all the major changes in the Storybook changelog.
  • Top 10 Tools Every React Developer Needs in 2024
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024
    Storybook
  • Announcing AnalogJS 1.0 🚀
    5 projects | dev.to | 14 Mar 2024
    We are continuing to make building fullstack websites and application with Analog and Angular as seamless as possible, and extending the Angular ecosystem through integrations with Astro, Nx, [Vitest]https://analogjs.org/docs/features/testing/vitest, Storybook, and more.
  • Storybook 8
    6 projects | dev.to | 12 Mar 2024
    Storybook is the industry standard UI tool for building, testing, and documenting components and pages. It’s used by thousands of teams globally, integrates with all major JavaScript frameworks, and combines with most leading design and developer tools.
  • Add Cypress, Playwright, and Storybook to Nx Expo Apps
    1 project | dev.to | 19 Feb 2024
    Expo has first-class support for building full-stack websites with React, so I can leverage that to add Cypress/Playwright for E2E testing and add the Storybook for UI components.
  • 13 best React debugging tools
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2024
    Storybook emerges as a pioneering solution among React debugging tools, offering an interactive environment for developers to create and test UI components. With its robust platform, teams can build, organize, and design UI components, and even entire screens, without the hurdles of business logic and plumbing.
  • Javascript is hard ayy eff
    1 project | /r/Frontend | 10 Dec 2023
    3) Look into things like StoryBook for your components - https://storybook.js.org/ - they help you get into good practices and expose you to some more advanced techniques but in a gradual and friendly way, and again, it's good to get into good habits from the start, and these help make sure you're getting into those good habits (it can be hard to learn good habits, but being forced into them helps, I find!)
  • Storybook 7.6 is out!
    1 project | /r/reactjs | 1 Dec 2023
    [Storybook 7.6](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/releases) is here with increased performance and much more! 🔥 Improved SWC support 🧪 New test utilities and fast build mode 🔼 NextJS SWC + avif support & fixes 🤡 SvelteKit page and navigation mocking ⚛️ React-docgen upgrade 🎨 Controls a11y, background theming, and viewports 🩺 CLI: The doctor is in! 🚫 Addons: Remove React as a peer dependency 🪦 Storyshots and Vue2 deprecated

react-styleguidist

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-styleguidist. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-14.
  • 45 NPM Packages to Solve 16 React Problems
    22 projects | dev.to | 14 Nov 2023
    react-styleguidist
  • Why I quit open source
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Sep 2023
    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.
  • 7 best ReactJS developer tools to simplify your workflow
    7 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2023
    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/.
  • Building a design system with Radix
    6 projects | dev.to | 14 Oct 2022
    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.
  • Style Guide for Effectively Commenting and Documenting your code
    1 project | /r/reactnative | 1 Sep 2022
    Today I had to present my work on a React Native app for the last 2 months in a meeting in front of the CEO. He was pleased with my work the only critique was more comments and documentation. Afterward my immediate supervisor told me to look up "Documentation Style Guides". He said he's not concerned which pattern I chose just learn one and stick with it. After searching I found this https://react-styleguidist.js.org/documenting which seems to address what I'm looking for. I just figured I would ask if anyone else out there has experience with a certain approach and has good documentation/tutorials to learn such an approach. Thanks in advance!
  • 8 Best Tools for React Ecosystem You Need Right Now
    4 projects | dev.to | 11 Jul 2022
    Checkout React Styleguidist by Clicking here
  • Going offline
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2022
    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.
  • 9 Must-have React Developer Tools to Create Better Apps Faster
    8 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2022
    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.
  • Check Out My Table Component!
    1 project | dev.to | 13 Feb 2022
    You can play with these examples along with my other components in this library directly within the documentation, which was generated using React Styleguidist.
  • React library development - How do you render your components during development?
    2 projects | /r/reactjs | 8 Jan 2022
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing storybook and react-styleguidist you can also consider the following projects:

Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

docz - ✍ It has never been so easy to document your things!

fluentui-blazor - Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor components library. For use with .NET 6.0 or higher Blazor applications

cosmos-js - Sandbox for developing and testing UI components in isolation

fractal - A tool to help you build and document website component libraries and design systems.

Next.js - The React Framework

svelte-luna - svelte ui kit

component-controls - A next-generation tool to create blazing-fast documentation sites.

primeng - The Most Complete Angular UI Component Library

story-tab - ⚡ Create React components demos in a zap

Bit - A build system for development of composable software.

react-atellier - The smartest way to share interactive components with your team.