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React 16 Tooling

You're reading from   React 16 Tooling Master essential cutting-edge tools, such as create-react-app, Jest, and Flow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835015
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christopher Pitt Christopher Pitt
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

1. Creating a Personalized React Development Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 2. Efficiently Bootstrapping React Applications with Create React App 3. Development Mode and Mastering Hot Reloading 4. Optimizing Test-Driven React Development 5. Streamlining Development and Refactoring with Type-Safe React Components 6. Enforcing Code Quality to Improve Maintainability 7. Isolating Components with Storybook 8. Debugging Components in the Browser 9. Instrumenting Application State with Redux 10. Building and Deploying Static React Sites with Gatsby 11. Building and Deploying React Applications with Docker Containers 12. Another Book You May Enjoy

Developing components with stories


The value of Storybook is that you don't have to set up an application to start hacking components. Or, if you already have an application under development, you don't have to figure out how to integrate in-progress components into your app. Storybook is a tool that enables experimentation. Through the use of add-ons, you can test almost any aspect of your component before worrying about integrating it into your application.

Experimenting with props

Perhaps, the most straightforward way to get started with developing components in Storybook is to start experimenting with different property values. To do so, you just have to create different stories of your component, each with different property values.

First, let's take a look at the component that you're working on:

import React from 'react'; 
 
const MyComponent = ({ title, content, titleStyle, contentStyle }) => ( 
  <section> 
    <heading> 
      <h2 style={titleStyle}>{title}&lt...
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