Put an end to manual Storybook Story creation

July 27, 2023 - 1 min read

StoryBook is a great tool to create a library of components reusable and adopt the Component Driven Develpment (CDD). It's also a great way to document your components and to share them with your team.

I will explain in a further article how to use StoryBook in your project, but for now, here a snippet that I developped to generate automatically a minimalist story in a new file without having to create it manually, like this :


_14import type { Meta, StoryObj } from "@storybook/react";
_14import Login from "./login";
_14
_14const meta: Meta<typeof Login> = {
_14    title: "organisms/Login",
_14    component: Login,
_14    tags: ["autodocs"],
_14};
_14
_14export default meta;
_14
_14type Story = StoryObj<typeof Login>;
_14
_14export const Empty: Story = {};

Create the custom snippet

Open VsCode
Open the command palette (Ctrl + Shift + P)
Type "snippet" and select "Preferences: Configure User Snippets"
Select "New Global Snippets file"
Name it "story"
Copy the following code in the file and save it


_22{
_22    "Create a Story": {
_22        "scope": "javascript,typescript,typescriptreact,javascriptreact",
_22        "prefix": "!story",
_22        "body": [
_22            "import type { Meta, StoryObj } from '@storybook/react';",
_22            "",
_22            "const meta: Meta<typeof $1> = {",
_22            "\ttitle: 'organisms/$1',",
_22            "\tcomponent: $1,",
_22            "\ttags: ['autodocs']",
_22            "};",
_22            "",
_22            "export default meta;",
_22            "",
_22            "type Story = StoryObj<typeof $1>;",
_22            "",
_22            "export const Empty: Story = {};"
_22        ],
_22        "description": "Create a story template for StoryBook"
_22    }
_22}

You just have to type !story in a new file, then enter the name of your component and the snippet will generate the story for you.

You're welcome, my fellow humans!

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