Introduction

GingerBook is a drop-in alternative to Storybook. It is a tool for developing and testing your React components in an environment that’s isolated and faster than most real-world applications. GingerBook also creates an index of your components, so you can easily test them through tools like Playwright.

Why? Performance!

GingerBook supports only React, embraces the latest standards (ES Modules) and focuses on performance. It’s built around Vite - modules are directly served to the browser and the bundling step is completely skipped. This means instant server starts no matter how many components it needs to load.

GingerBook still produces an optimized bundle using rollup when it’s time to deploy it. Without adding a single component Storybook 6.4 outputs 5.1MB of assets. GingerBook only 250KB. GingerBook is almost 20x smaller.

Each GingerBook story gets automatically code-split, so it doesn’t matter how many components you want it to handle. GingerBook always loads fast.